[Ocs] Meeting Proposal: OCS Next Sprint Review

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi Laszlo,

Sorry for not being more active. I was super busy with other stuff. An Irc meeting and a sprint are very good ideas. I'm offline the next 2 because I'm on vacation. Anything afterwards is fine.
Looking forward to make our 2.0 plans happen :-) 

Cheers
Frank


On 04.03.2012, at 11:04, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> Hey there :)
> 
> As you may already know, few of us, and actually more and more
> projects are still interested in the second major version of the Open
> Collaboration Services Standard, which is very impressive and awesome.
> Meanwhile, having a wiki page or git repository setup for the draft is
> a nice step, I believe, it is even better to have a focused and
> coordinated meeting on the topic where we can revisit the ideas we
> figured out at the sprint [1] last year. There are, of course, new
> members in our community, thus the review would be welcome from those
> people, and also, if they have further ideas for improvements.
> 
> I have already discussed my idea with some of you about a potential
> IRC meeting. Unfortunately, it is not a personal experience with each
> other as the excellent one we had in Berlin last year, but I think it
> is a good boost. I am personally unsure whether we would be able to
> obtain financial support for a face to face meeting again, or just
> find the time ourselves for the traveling and coordinating all the
> neccesary practicalities for that (albeit, if you think that is a
> better option, I can try to find the time for organizing one).
> 
> Hence my proposal (I know it sounds a bit strange, but please bear with me):
> What about an IRC meeting at some weekend, preferrably a dedicated
> Saturday, either in the second half of March or the first half of
> April ? I would not personally like to postpone this happening too
> much (ie. months), if possible. Unfortunately, it does not work for me
> earlier because of the upcoming Plasma Active 3 Sprint and the
> post-activities of that event.
> 
> My plans would be for this meeting, in a nutshell:
> 1) Get as many contributors as possible around this standard to build
> a nice community which can sustain itself later.
> 2) Obviously, review the points we made about a RESTful Standard at
> the previous Sprint :), and more importantly: get them written into a
> draft format on some public page.
> 3) Distribute standard editing tasks, due to the enumerated ideas, to
> the participants.
> 4) Clearly define the strategy for trying to make client side
> implementation(s), like an add-on Qt5 module (which I, for instance,
> would love to deal with), python, php implementation and so forth.
> 5) Clearly define the strategy for trying to make server side
> implementetation(s), like getting python, php and so forth,
> contributors.
> 
> I have also further ideas, like marketing around the Standard and
> collecting potential clients for getting involved in the loop.. Also,
> the testing of the API itself that Henri was pushing previously, and
> so forth, but any good kick-off meeting would be brilliant, at least
> in my opinion. =)
> 
> What do you think, especially Frank ?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
> 
> [1] http://dot.kde.org/2011/05/18/open-collaboration-services-next-sprint
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