Would anyone be interested in joining me doing a ‘regular’ live stream while gardening?
Essentially just like the private meeting we usually do on a Thursday, but I’d live- stream my screen while we do it. I think maybe 40-50 minutes is enough time, unless we get really stuck in and want to go longer.
(For those that don’t know, we have a group meeting were we triage, review and reply to issues and pull requests across our open source projects)
I’m thinking I can use OBS on my laptop to stream one screen to a YouTube live, so people can come along and watch, ask questions, point us to the issues or PRs they deeply care about.
I’ve already done a private test stream to the Anchore channel and it all works fine.
I don’t think it needs the whole team for the entire time, every week. But if people on the team do want to join either with video, or just encouragement in the chat, they’re very welcome, obviously.
Maybe just me plus one, whoever has capacity, and willingness to turn their webcam on that day. What do you think?
I’m not opposed to it. The two observations I have:
If there is community involvement, would this essentially end up just being another office hours meeting? If so, should we just make office hours weekly, where we start with gardening if we don’t have topics?
We are sensitive to the amount of meetings we have, and I don’t think having another hour a week would be a problem but we probably wouldn’t want to add much more than that, maybe we just make sure these are optional?
I think for a live stream of doing “Things I would be doing on the open source project anyway” there’s no expectation of community engagement. It’s more of a bonus if people come along and participate. Even if it’s just a thumbs up
When I have done streams like this in the past, often times people are just watching the stream to learn about how people do stuff, and have an opportunity to see how the sausage is made. Other times it’s an opportunity to engage with the team behind cool stuff you use on a daily basis. I know a lot of people value that.
I also certainly appreciate nobody wants “Yet another meeting that could have been an email” in their calendar. That’s kinda why I suggested a rotation, rather than the whole team being required to attend.
Maybe this is just a re-formatting of the existing office hours, like you say, where if there’s nothing on the agenda, we do some gardening. One of the benefits of doing a live stream (and then having the recording accessible) is that people can very quickly see what the ‘vibe’ of the thing is, so they can join in via chat (as an observer) if they like the look of it.
Keen to hear what others think.
I’m happy to do this, even if I’m the only one there, muddling through issues, either way
I would be open to it for sure – I agree that it should probably take place as part of the existing community meeting and we can make that meeting more frequent.
Maybe use the existing slot we already use for the community meeting, that does make sense. Doing it every week would be double-awesome. A regular cadence on these kinds of things really helps.
Also, 9pm my time is a good slot, as it covers all the US timezones too.
Probably makes sense to start with Thursday 11th July, and each Thursday after that. Try it out for a few weeks, and see how we get on?
I’ll be happy to set it all up, announce, change links in various places and stream our zoom call. So all the engineers have to do is turn up, look beautiful
Ahoy-hoy!
