An idea was raised at our Global Hangout last night, about the possibility of an OFN Development group regular online catch up / hang out / meet up.
It seems like a great opportunity to extend the talking on Discourse about all things technical and code-based into a (virtual) face-to-face gathering where people can talk about what they’re working on, get ideas from the crowd on the best approach to developing particular features. Where newbies can ask questions, where decisions can be made on the solution/domain (e.g. like deciding it’s time upgrade the rails/spree version) and where everyone can moan about tech debt and how no matter what it just keeps piling up
We also thought that it would be better to leave it in the hands of our developers to decide if this is a good idea, and if it is to coordinate setting it up and running with it.
Here in France we are really interested in having these meet ups. It would lead to a better coordination and, for us, a clearer visibility on the roadmaps and priorities.
We should save some time during the meet ups on technical design thoughts and decisions.
Its a good idea Perhaps once a month or something like that?
The trick would be getting the content right that there is useful discussions for everyone joining. Often technical stuff are very specific questions that need a 1-1 conversation, but group chats could be super useful too. Certainly worth a try?
I think this is a good idea, but agree with Paul that we need to make sure there is some kind of structure. Maybe we can have a post here (or a github repo) for people to add topics they want to discuss - whether asking or explaining.
Hi there! Did this move forward? We had a meeting with the French team yesterday, and we thought that would really be great to have this space for the dev people to go beyond the bottlenecks they are sometimes stuck with… @pmackay are you up to organize this once a month? Or anyone else want to take the lead on facilitating that?
Perhaps once a month or something like that?