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Perl: The Perl and Raku Conference 2020 will be in Houston, Texas, USA, June 23-27. (Call for talk proposals open till January 27.) I don't know much about this conference but figured I should mention it!

Python: PyCon North America, mid-April in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (I will be at this) goes April 15-23:

Tutorials (for which you pay extra) and some specialized Python summits: April 15 & 16.
Main talks: Friday, April 17-Sunday, April 19.
Open source sprints (you don't have to pay a PyCon registration fee to attend): Monday, April 20, 2020 – Thursday, April 23, 2020. Example sprints in 2019.

PyCon offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend (deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January). I have successfully requested financial aid in the past. It's a good process.

Registration starts at the student/academic rate: $125 per person.

Conference hotel rates: $164-$180/night, plus taxes/fees (about ~14% taxes/fees, so, $187-$205/night). There is a hotel room sharing page on the PyCon site.

PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Dreamwidth tech. If Dreamwidth folks want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints to work on Dreamwidth-related Python tools together, that would be cool!

cesy

I have consulted my diary and concluded this is happening on 15-17 June.

Starting from 7pm on Friday night, finishing 2pm Sunday. Remote participation encouraged - we'll be on IRC and Discord and can set up Skype if people want.

( Practical details for those attending )

cesy

I have a new home and space to host a volunteer weekend - would anyone be up for another one, maybe in June? I'm within easy reach of Waterloo or Victoria for those outside London.

cesy

Reminder - this weekend, my place, details at my journal, all welcome, PM me with any questions.

cesy

I will be hosting a contributor weekend on 20th Feb, similar to the one that

kaberett did before. Details on my journal.

kareila

A few months ago, I started scheduling regular dev chat meetings in an effort to increase awareness of our development efforts and discuss how to deal with common issues we all face in the course of development.

I think a lot of good has come from these chats. However, over the last six weeks or so, participation has fallen way off, and I'm no longer convinced they can continue to serve a useful purpose in their current form.

If it's a scheduling issue, I'm happy to move it around to get more attendance. I've asked before for alternative times and gotten no responses. I had hoped that by scheduling it to occur at the same time every couple of weeks, that would allow people to plan ahead to arrange their availability to attend. If it would work better to poll everyone for a preferred time for each meeting, I can try that for a while.

If it's not a scheduling issue, I'd like to know why more people aren't showing up to participate. It was made clear to me in the discussion here that there was definitely a perceived need for something like this three months ago. Has that need disappeared? Should we be trying to meet it in a different way?

Basically I want to do whatever I can to help facilitate communication in the development community, but I want to make sure my efforts are having the desired effect. Please comment if you have any thoughts on the matter. Thanks.

kareila

There will not be a dev chat meeting today unless someone else shows up for me to talk to, because Mark and Fu are on vacation.

However, I will be around trying to hack on DW stuff for the next few hours, so come find me if you want to pick my brain about anything.

The next scheduled meeting time is on Saturday, September 13, at 12 pm EDT.

kareila

If you weren't able to make today's meeting in #dreamwidth-dev, the next meeting will be on Saturday, August 23, at 12 pm EDT. Also there will be another hack date on Sunday, August 17, also at 12 pm EDT.

Here's a list of topics we discussed today, and most of them will probably be revisited next time:

code push tomorrow, should fix issues with new mobile styles
Github Issues revamped, updated docs on wiki
possible alternative project trackers and chat platforms
scheduled another social hack time for 8/17
encourage "what are we working on" discussion/issues outside of IRC
reconsidering how we name/advertise release branches

In attendance were myself, Afuna, zorkian, exor674, and V_PauAmma_V.

( Raw chat log under the cut. )

kareila

Hi all,

I'm moving the next chat meeting back a week, to Saturday, August 9, at 12 pm EDT. I hope this doesn't inconvenience any one, but neither Fey nor I can promise to be around this coming weekend.

I hope the hack date on Sunday was productive! Hopefully I can be there for the next one. :)

Current Mood: rushed

mark

Instead of a dev chat this weekend, I'm planning on doing some DW work on Sunday morning my time for a while. I welcome anybody who's interested to hop on IRC for some low-key proximal (chronologically) hack time.

There is no real schedule or plan: you can and should work on whatever you want, whether it be code, docs, support requests, styles, design, or even just hanging out and not doing any project if you just want to be social. Although I don't intend to spend a lot of time chatting (it's hacking time for me!) but I will be around for questions.

Date: Sunday 2014-07-27
Time: ~9AM PDT / 1600 UTC

Hope to see some of you there!

kareila

In a few minutes we'll be starting a meeting in #dreamwidth-dev! Please drop by if you're around and chat with us!

If you aren't able to make today's meeting, the next meeting will be on Saturday, August 9, at 12 pm EDT.

Update: Here's a list of topics we discussed today:

moving chat meetings to every other week, and having social hack time on alternate weeks
new mobile styles: current status, and what needs to be done (helpers welcome)
Github Issues: still working on getting tags and teams into shape
project tracking for non-development projects (e.g. documentation) and non-public projects (security issues)
general tracking of larger developer projects (using milestones for this)

And a partial list of topics to follow up with next time:

revisit scheduling if needed; was social hack time productive?
specific "what are we working on" discussion/issues (chat? blogs? other?)
revisit new mobile styles / Github Issues to discuss progress

In attendance were myself, deborahGU, Afuna, alierak, zorkian, and Sophira.

( Raw chat log under the cut. )

kareila

In two hours, we'll be starting a meeting in #dreamwidth-dev! Please drop by if you're around and chat with us!

If you can't make today's meeting, the next meeting will be on Saturday, July 19, at 12 noon EDT.

Update: We only had a few people show up, so tonight's chat was very informal. If you are one of the developers who cannot attend meetings at 12 noon EDT on Saturdays, will you consider proposing an alternate time for our opposite weeks in the comments here?

Here's the list of topics I'd intended to discuss tonight, to follow up with next time:

project tracking for non-development projects (e.g. documentation)
general tracking of larger developer projects (wiki? milestones? other?)
specific "what are we working on" discussion/issues (chat? blogs? other?)
possibly moving chat meetings to every other week

In attendance were myself, foxfirefey, Afuna, rax, and fhocutt.

( Raw chat log under the cut. )

kareila

In a few minutes we'll be starting a meeting in #dreamwidth-dev! Please drop by if you're around and chat with us!

If you can't make today's meeting, the next meeting will be on Friday, July 11, at 10 pm EDT.

Update: Here's a list of topics we discussed today:

profile for dw-dev community (foxfirefey)
updating Ubuntu version on dreamhack server (sophie)
Github issues revisited (afuna)
what we learned at OSB
general "what are we working on" discussion/issues
access to old bugs from Bugzilla (exor674)
possibly alternating chat meetings with group development time (zorkian)

And a partial list of topics to follow up with next time:

general tracking of developer projects (wiki? milestones? other?)
specific "what are we working on" discussion/issues (chat? blogs? other?)
possibly moving chat meetings to every other week

In attendance were myself, _Simon_, V_PauAmma_V, louise_, foxfirefey, Afuna, exor674, alierak, zorkian, rahaeli, Momijizukamori, and Sophira.

( Raw chat log under the cut. )

foxfirefey

Reminding folks that we have a dev meeting coming up on Saturday, July 5, at 12 noon EDT!

One thing I want to be discussing is the profile of

dw_dev; I have editing it some lately to be more helpful, but could use more feedback.

kareila

I had originally scheduled the next dev chat meeting for tonight at 10 pm EDT, about 90 minutes from now. Unfortunately, those of us who are at OSB will be eating dinner then. I will let those who had planned to attend decide among the following three options:

Wait for us to be done with dinner and start about two hours late
Start without us, if someone else is willing to lead the meeting
Scratch tonight's planned meeting and regroup at the next scheduled time, which is Sat Jul 5 @ 12:00 EDT

Discuss amongst yourselves!

Current Mood: embarrassed

kareila

In a few minutes we'll be starting a meeting in #dreamwidth-dev! Please drop by if you're around and chat with us!

If you can't make today's meeting, the next meeting will be on Friday, June 27, at 10 pm EDT.

Update: Here's a list of topics we discussed today:

Github issues
Foundation/Compass
old pull requests
updating Ubuntu version on dreamhack server
developer open question threads

And a partial list of topics to follow up with next time:

what we learned at OSB
access to old bugs from Bugzilla
possibly alternating chat meetings with group development time

In attendance were myself, _Simon_, V_PauAmma_V, kaberett, foxfirefey, Afuna, exor674, alierak, zorkian, and Sophira.

( Raw chat log under the cut. )

kareila

For a while now I've been kicking around the idea of scheduling a regular time once a week or so to meet in #dreamwidth-dev and chat about what's going on with Dreamwidth development - what we're doing, what we want to be doing, what we might be stuck on, etc. We've tried this once before, but it's been a couple of years and I want to make the effort to get this going again. I personally would be more motivated to work on code if I were checking in with the other members of the development team more frequently, and I expect I'm not the only one!

This is how I propose we start:

First meeting on Saturday, June 21, at 12 noon EDT
Second meeting on Friday, June 27, at 10 pm EDT (this is the last evening of OSB)
Third meeting on Saturday, July 5, at 12 noon EDT
Fourth meeting on Friday, July 11, at 10 pm EDT

Subsequent meetings will follow this alternating pattern for at least the first few months, after which we can evaluate and decide if we need to shift things around. Having a meeting scheduled every weekend may seem like a bit much, but I expect that by having a regular staggered schedule, hopefully those who can't make one time work for them can attend the alternate one, or drop in as time permits. This setup will also allow us to avoid the hassle of having to figure out a new scheduling consensus for every meeting.

Other points of interest:

I'm not doing this alone! foxfirefey has agreed to share hosting duties so that if something comes up for one of us, the other can be responsible for guiding the meeting. Also, it would be very helpful to have other experienced devs on hand to offer advice and/or mentorship to those who might be struggling.
I would like to post meeting logs to dw_dev for the benefit of those who are not able to attend but are interested in the proceedings.
We don't want to exclude anyone! If you're reading this and not already familiar with our IRC channels, check out the IRC help page on our wiki, keeping in mind we'll be chatting in #dreamwidth-dev, not #dreamwidth. If you can't be on IRC, you can always ask questions in comments as well.

I hope you'll be able to join us!

Current Mood: hopeful

mark

Hi all!

I've been doing some poking around and realized that I don't have a good overall state-of-the-DW-development. I have some vague ideas about what some people are working on and interested in, but I wanted to make those vague ideas become a bit less vague. :)

If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate you taking the time to answer a couple of quick questions here!

Are you actively working on a bug (or several) right now? Which ones?
What are you interested in working on -- broadly or narrowly, what do you want to do? (Or are you just open for suggestions?)
Is there anything explicitly blocking you from doing what you want? (Knowledge, someone has the bug claimed for a year, need a hand with something, etc.)
Free form! Anything you want to say or ask. :)

I also want us to have another development focused chat like we did some months ago. I think the last one I did was well timed for US developers but bad for EU, so I'll go the other way this time. I'm thinking something like 8AM Pacific which is midnight for fu and 4PM UTC on a Sunday. Reasonable?

Thanks!

denise

Well, I managed to sleep through the meeting and

mark was fixing the database comment limits problem, so the meeting started a little late. (It's a good thing we're cute?)

Here's the log, lightly redacted to remove discussion of personal and offtopic stuff (and to remove irc administrivia like joins and parts). We'll do this again in a few weeks!

( Meeting log )

denise

The Doodle poll has spoken, and the time that works for the most people unfortunately doesn't work for

mark, so we'll be using the second-most-popular time:

Saturday 28 April 9PM EDT - 11PM EDT (1AM GMT - 3AM GMT)

My apologies to those of you in EU timezones; our next meeting will be scheduled to be more convenient for y'all!

The meeting will begin precisely at 9PM EDT in irc (irc.freenode.net, channel #dreamwidth-dev) and will definitely run for at least two hours (if discussion is going well, we may continue a little past the 11PM end time). The meeting will be logged and logs will be publicly posted (lightly edited) to

dw_dev afterwards.

If you have anything in particular you'd like to put on the agenda for discussion, leave a comment. Otherwise, the agenda will be "let's all talk about awesome things we are doing".

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brainwane - PyCon and Perl & Raku conferences this year in North America
cesy - London volunteer weekend: 16th June
cesy - Another London volunteer weekend?
cesy - Contributor weekend
cesy - Dreamwidth contributor weekend
kareila - dev chat meetings suspended; request for comments
kareila - dev chat meeting: 2014-08-23 12:00 EDT
kareila - dev chat meeting: 2014-08-09 12:00 EDT
kareila - next meeting moved to Aug 9
mark - proximal hack time - sunday 2014-07-27 at ~9AM PDT / 1600 UTC
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kareila - dev chat meeting: 2014-07-11 22:00 EDT
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PyCon and Perl & Raku conferences this year in North America

London volunteer weekend: 16th June

Another London volunteer weekend?

Contributor weekend

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dev chat meetings suspended; request for comments

dev chat meeting: 2014-08-23 12:00 EDT

dev chat meeting: 2014-08-09 12:00 EDT

next meeting moved to Aug 9

proximal hack time - sunday 2014-07-27 at ~9AM PDT / 1600 UTC

dev chat meeting: 2014-07-19 12:00 EDT

dev chat meeting: 2014-07-11 22:00 EDT

dev chat meeting: 2014-07-05 12:00 EDT

Dev meeting coming up this Saturday

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dev chat meeting: 2014-06-21 12:00 EDT

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