Good morning,
I discussed the idea of having an online meetup between XMPP operators
within the operators MUC a few days ago. Due to email migrations I
didn't find the time to draft the email, so I apologise for the delay.
So presenting the idea and name of "XMPP Op(erator)Meet(up)" or "XMPP
OpMeet" for short, and yes I did spend a while trying to find a name
for it, and no it doesn't actually matter :p
this email is to merely gauge interest in the idea. I would like to
take lead on providing the infrastructure, I feel the best bet for this
would be a jitsi instance as its fully featured and stable.
The idea follows:
* Run a Jitsi meeting for the period of a day for operators.
* Have a small CfP for any operator who wants to talk or discuss their
setup.
* Make the meeting accessible for non-operators too, what better way to
get people interested in being an operator than let them join a
meeting and hear the discussions on the topic.
* Jitsi supports breakout rooms (like zoom, but never tried using them)
so we could breakout into smaller groups to discuss or deal with
specific projects or ideas, in a sprint-style manner, then come
together at the end to present what each breakout room got up to over
the time?
* Maybe if someone is up for it, we can run a workshop in a breakout
room for non-operators to learn to setup their first XMPP server
using prosody or ejabberd?
Anyways to gauge interest please reply with a + if you think this would
be a good idea to organise, and a - if you believe this would be a bad
idea or wouldn't be interested. You are free to vote on each individual
idea bulletpointed above, I will take any - on the individual ideas into
account, and drop unpopular ones.
If we get enough +'s I will start a poll to vote on the first XMPP
OpMeet.
Some questions which others might be able to sole:
* Timezones? operators are distributed across the globe, how should we
account for this?
* Any alternative software suggestions?
* Any other ideas of what to do during the online meetup?
* Does XMPP OpConf sound better/make more sense? Calling it an "online
conference" feels wrong as it feels more like an informal meetup, but
I don't know, let me know your thoughts!
Thanks,
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Polarian
Jabber/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev
