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, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev