Meeting will happen in #contribution-events on drupal.slack.com.
Hello and welcome to this asynchronous, biweekly Slack meeting for the Contribution Events Initiative! :wave:
This meeting:
➤ Is for Drupal community members interested in how to better organize, promote, and improve contribution events. We discuss upcoming events, lessons learned from past events, ideas for increasing event participation, how to improve documentation, and more.
➤ Happens every two weeks in alternating timezones: 5pm UTC Mondays and 5am UTC Tuesdays.
➤ Is done over chat.
➤ Is actively facilitated for 1 hour, but is open asynchronously for 24 hours from the meeting start time.
➤ Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!
➤ Transcript will be exported and posted to a project issue for this meeting. For anonymous comments, start with a :bust_in_silhouette: emoji. To take a comment or thread off the record, start with a :no_entry_sign: emoji.
This meeting is run alternately by @Kristen Pol (she/her) and @surabhi.gokte. This week I am facilitating.
:zero: Who is here today? Comment in the thread to introduce yourself and let us know [insert social question, e.g. if you have any interesting plans for the weekend, what is a recent book/movie/series you enjoyed, what is a new song you like, have any fun vacation plans].
:one: Do you have suggested topics you are looking to discuss? Post in this thread and we’ll open separate threads for them as appropriate. Please use the additional threads for discussion.
:two: Space to call out any recent contribution wins and special Drupal thanks for people in contribution land.
:three: Are there any contribution events coming up that you know about? Regular events?
:four: Did you participate in a contribution event recently? Feedback?
:five: Are you looking for a contribution event to help as an organizer, mentor, or participant? Or are you an event organizer that doesn't have contribution activities yet and would like help?
:six: Do you have any resources or documentation suggestions? Do you have suggestions for where to look for existing documentation (even outside of Drupal)?
[add additional topic threads here]
:last: That's all folks, thank you for attending! 💙 This meeting is officially open for the next 23 hours, so please continue the conversation in the threads above. We also welcome feedback on the meeting structure and agenda via this thread, Slack, or issue queue!
- For #1, don't copy/paste the topics exactly unless they are clear and short enough. Otherwise, summarize the information so it's easy to understand. Then start each of those topic threads with the first item acknowledging the person who suggested the topic, e.g.
[@ name] raised this. Or you can put in the thread message if preferred.
- For #3, add this for first item in the thread:
In addition to adding events here, use this issue to add new events and encourage organizers to add these to the Community Events list as well: https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3281974
- For #4, add this for first item in the thread:
In addition to adding feedback here, use this issue or create a child issue to add any contribution event feedback:
https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3282885
- For #5, add this for first item in the thread:
In addition to adding your interest here, use this page to signify your willingness to help at contribution events: https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/contribution-events-initiat...
- For #6, add these for first items in the thread:
In addition to adding your resources here, use this issue to note any resources and documentation that might be helpful for contribution events or places we could look (even outside of Drupal): https://www.drupal.org/project/contribution_events/issues/3280005
- After #6, review the open project issues to see if there are any topics that should be added for this particular meeting and open numbered threads as appropriate.
0️⃣ Who is here today? Comment in the thread to introduce yourself and...Ice breaker question: Where's a place in the world you would really like to go to someday and why?
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Kristen, California
I'd love to go to Iceland and see the Northern Lights because the photos look so pretty 😍 |
| AmyJune (volkswagenchick) |
AMyJune, volkswagenchick… I’d love to visit India. I love all colorful everything. |
| VinmayiSwamy |
Vinmayi, IndiaI would love to visit Kanya Kumari, India to enjoy the beautiful view of the sunset on black sand beach |
| Gaurav mahlawat |
Gauravvvv, IndiaI would love to visit Czech Republic. |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
I've been to Prague (in 1994) and it was so cool |
| gregg_marshall |
Gregg, greggmarshall. I'd love to visit Easter Island. When I was in high school I had an adult friend who was assigned there and it sounded really lovely. |
| Sarah Corbine (scorbine) |
Good morning, scorbine here. I’d love to go to Alaska. It looks so beautiful! |
| tekNorah |
Hello! tekNorah here. I would love to visit my ancestral lands of England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany someday. Might have to be a digital nomad for a few months for this. lol |
| VladimirAus |
Vladimir from Australia |
1️⃣ Do you have suggested topics you are looking to discuss? Post in this thread and we’ll open separate threads for them as appropriate. Please use the additional threads for discussion.
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Changing the meeting time |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Running the Drupal 10 readiness abandoned project adoption via contribution events issue queue |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Onboarding mentee |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Picking a good initiative (or initiatives) for a remote contribution event in the coming months |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Running a remote counterpart of the DrupalCon contribution event? |
| VladimirAus |
Recording D10 upgrade guide? |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
You mean have a mentored remote event to create the guide? Or the guide is used to mentor people to upgrade to D10? |
2️⃣ Space to call out any recent contribution wins and special Drupal thanks for people in contribution land.
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Shout out to @heddn for adopting so many abandoned projects and getting them D10 releases 😍 |
| Gaurav mahlawat |
Now we have 27 RTBCs for Claro stylesheets refactor part of Drupal CSS Modernization Initiative. |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Nice! |
| tekNorah |
Seeing some great progress over at the #project-browser initiative recently! 🙂 |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Yes! @leslieg has been fantastic at making contribution events happen regularly for PB! |
3️⃣ Are there any contribution events coming up that you know about? Regular events?
4️⃣ Did you participate in a contribution event recently? Feedback?
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
I have been participating in the abandoned project adoption #d10readiness sub-initiative which we are capturing in the contribution-events issue queue for lack of a better place (edited) |
| Gaurav mahlawat |
Working on CSS modernization initiative. |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Cool... was there a particular event around this? Is this the decoupled initiative or something else? |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
I see it in the other thread: #3254529: [PLAN] Drupal CSS Modernization Initiative |
| VladimirAus |
People are signing up and not turning up. So last events we were running internally with online mentoring time. |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Would you explain this a bit more?So last events we were running internally with online mentoring time.Not sure I follow |
5️⃣ Are you looking for a contribution event to help as an organizer, mentor, or participant? Or are you an event organizer that doesn't have contribution activities yet and would like help?
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
DrupalCon is looking for mentors in the #mentoring channel |
| VladimirAus |
DrupalSouth is looking for volunteers on site |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Thanks! |
6️⃣ We are moving to one meeting a month which will be this time slot for now unless there are other suggestions
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
I can be pretty flexible between 11am and 11pm Pacific time |
| tekNorah |
Are the #event-organizers meetings merging into this group and/or this channel moving forward? |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Our focus is contribution events so this channel will continue for now. We can revisit moving this work into that channel in the coming months now that I’m on the EOWG board. This channel does also serve as a place for managing contribution events real time and i don’t think the other channel is suitable for that. But during these types of events, there may be another suitable channel depending on the focus. For example the porting events were mostly managed in #d10readiness |
| VladimirAus |
That time suits me but I'm flexible |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Thanks |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
So far there have been no suggestions to a different time so I'm inclined to just keep it as is even though it's not uncommon for me to be the only synchronous person 😂 |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Always fun talking with myself! |
7️⃣ Running the Drupal 10 readiness abandoned project adoption via contribution events issue queue
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
If you want to help adopt an abandoned contributed project in order to get it a Drupal 10 release, ping us in the #d10readiness channel |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Although this isn't technically an "event", we are using the contribution_events project to try this work so people will get credit for helping out |
8️⃣ Status for onboarding mentee to this initiative (edited)
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
I've been having regular meetings with @Julie Lykke Sørensen for onboarding and now we have some concrete tasks including reviewing specific documentation in the contribution guide |
| VladimirAus |
As before, I'm planning video guide to be released in April |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
oh... wait, what? I'm not remembering what this is... but I am tired (past midnight here)... reminder? |
| cosmicdreams |
@VladimirAus I'm also interested in learning more. |
| VladimirAus |
In a nutshell, I'm recording the set of videos on how to upgrade modules to D10 on drupal.org. I mentioned it to DA but haven't heard anything back so I assume they aren't interested.I just wanted to incorporate everything I learned while upgrading modules to D10 in the last 6 months. |
| VladimirAus |
I'll share the training plan in a week or so. |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Wow! This sounds fantastic ❤️ my guess that the lack of response is due to juggling too many things rather than disinterest |
9️⃣ Looking for suggestion for initiative(s) to be the focus of a global remote contribution event in the coming months
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
As part of the mentee onboarding, we discuss perhaps running a global remote event to document the process and for training and to give experience that could help feed into reviewing the contributor guide documentation |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Looking for suggestions... perhaps not #d10readiness though since we did 3 of those last year |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Bug smash? Project browser? Recipes? Something else? |
| quietone |
Writing tours? |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Are people still doing tours? I haven't worked on tour stuff in years and have lost touch |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
From what I remember, they are fun to create 🙂 |
| gusaus |
It's not an initiative, but there might be components of the Drupal Contribution MVP well suited for contributions events. Particularly contributions to the website |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
True! |
| gusaus |
Considering https://www.drupalcontribution.org/ could/should be an initial use case (along with a few camps already using this related module), I think Open Collective integration could be good source material for a series of contribution events. |
| cosmicdreams |
Help Topics? https://www.drupal.org/node/3027054 |
1️⃣0️⃣ Running a remote counterpart of the DrupalCon contribution event?
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
The DrupalCon organizer will not be organizing remote contribution as part of the event (they have a lot to do just with the in-person event) |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
If there were people willing to lead a remote counterpart to the event, that would be pretty cool IMO |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Anyone willing to volunteer? Ideally more than one person but one is enough 😉 |
| VladimirAus |
Happy to help (edited) |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Nice! |
| Kristen Pol (she/her) |
Maybe we can discuss how to organize and promote in April? We probably don't want to promote too early or people might forget 😆 |
1️⃣1️⃣ That's all folks, thank you for attending! 💙 This meeting is officially open for the next 23 hours, so please continue the conversation in the threads above. We also welcome feedback on the meeting structure and agenda via this thread, Slack, or issue queue!
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