Hi everybody, I've been talking to some people in the last weeks trying to figure out how to build upon the good things Martijn brought to the developer community over the last year but also avoiding the troubles he experienced. For starters, I'd like to introduce real-time meetings that we can use to organise ourselves better. I suggest those to happen on IRC. Let's consider this as an experiment without too much overhead, so I'll just start running those meetings through the month of March. I will be on IRC and I'd be happy to talk to people about whatever they think relevant for improving the developer community and/or Zope and I'd be happy if some of you actually show up. I'll also create a summarized report of the meeting and send that out to zope-dev so whatever happens remains visible for the rest who could not attend. Rules ----- Location freenode, #zope Rhythm weekly, every Tuesday in March on 3pm UTC Duration *exactly* 30 minutes, guaranteed Report I will send the IRC log and a summary to zope-dev, maybe publish to wider audience. Moderation I will moderate the meeting (for now) and will walk us through the agenda and keep an eye on the clock. Agenda ------ To keep the meeting constructive and focused I will take the lead on moderating what we discuss. Please send topics you'd like to talk about to me by mail (ct@gocept.com) and I will compile an agenda. I'll do some upfront prioritization and give a short period at the beginning of the meeting for attendees to challenge topics they feel I mis-prioritized. Time rules ---------- The meeting will take exactly 30 minutes - after that I *will* wrap up and create the summary. I'd like the meeting itself to focus on organisational issues, not directly solving/discussing technical issues or getting work done. As I want this to spur action, you're free (and welcome!) to stay after the offical part and go into the topics further. Warning ------- I know that I'll fill both a moderator role and have my own stakes in the topics, so please bear with me if I'm struggling balancing that. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Theune · ct@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development