When we introduced the new monthly SysAdmin meeting (formerly the Adopters meeting) we had already discussed renaming the weekly Technical meeting to Dev meeting to further differentiate the two since there were now two kind of technical meetings. However, we didn’t announce this change and also missed a few places to update.
So this time for real: The Technical meeting will henceforth be called (at least in official writing) as the Dev meeting. The content and purpose of the meeting will not change. Non-developers are still welcome to join, just as developers are welcome in the SysAdmin meetings.
Both meetings are (mostly) of a technical nature, but the Dev meeting will contain more in-depth discussions about past and future development. For example we will go through all newly opened pull requests and discuss controversial changes. Decisions that affect the community and don’t require a committers vote can be made here. It’s also the place for the Release Managers to give their weekly status update.
On the other hand the SysAdmin meeting (inofficially called “A support group for Opencast administrators”) is aimed at on those that run Opencast instances. Community development is discussed in a more summarized way. It’s a chance for developers to get in touch with adopters, and for adopters to exchange experiences, as well as for new people to ask questions. At the end of the meeting, there’s a chance for someone to present something that could be interesting to the rest of the attendees in the form of a webinar (usually recorded).
For more information on when and where these meetings take place, please check here. And hope to see you there. 😀
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