18:08:23 <gregdek> #startmeeting ansible-cwg
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18:08:27 <gregdek> #topic open floor
18:08:30 <gregdek> Hey y'all
18:10:13 * gundalow waves
18:10:25 <gundalow> First Leeds, UK meetup next week!
18:10:42 * gundalow looks around the channel for people from THE NORTH
18:10:50 <gundalow> (of the England)
18:12:13 <gregdek> w00t!!!
18:13:09 <gregdek> Taking lightbulb through its paces, prepping to run a session at cfgmgmtcamp day 3.
18:15:17 <gregdek> No response from Toshaan yet there though.
18:17:16 <gundalow> Nice
18:18:00 <gundalow> Will be presenting at Automates Netherlands as well
18:18:20 <gregdek> Oh, when is that?
18:18:21 <gundalow> Next London meetup is 7th Feb, sponsored by F5
18:18:49 <gundalow> 14th March. Should be on the website soon
18:19:19 <gundalow> Will be asking the attendees of the London Meetup for help
18:21:08 <gundalow> gregdek: I'd still like to do some sort of hackathon thing, though I'm not really sure what it would look like
18:21:14 <gundalow> or if it needs to be in person
18:21:20 <gregdek> Also reach out to the benelux meetup, which is full of good folks. We should also mention it at cfgmgmtcamp.
18:21:53 <gregdek> Hackathons are challenging, but the nice thing is, you can just set one up and see who shows up, if you have the space.
18:21:59 * gundalow will join benelux
18:22:14 <gundalow> Red Hat London has nice space for for working
18:22:17 <gregdek> The likelihood of getting enough people who have the requisite skills in one place to contribute much is fairly low, experience says.
18:22:22 <gundalow> nod
18:22:24 <gregdek> But if you can find 2-3, you're winning!
18:22:33 <gregdek> And in London, you've obviously got a much better chance of that.
18:22:33 <gundalow> and having a good enough list of things to work on
18:26:45 <gregdek> So what do you think that list looks like?
18:26:59 <gundalow> not sure
18:27:07 <gundalow> it partly depends on what people are interested in
18:27:15 <gregdek> Right.
18:27:31 <gundalow> We have lots of useful, though very small things that add value that CI detects
18:27:34 <gregdek> And that's also part of the problem: there are now thousands of things for people to be interested in, and likely all different :)
18:27:47 <gundalow> such as documentation issues, fixing of python imports
18:28:10 <gregdek> But still. I think if you say "hey we're gonna work on this" you might get a few people, and introducing them to the Ansible development process is a win.
18:28:13 <gundalow> We've found people in the community chipping away though those lists, which is good
18:28:56 <gregdek> Excellent
18:29:52 <gundalow> For sometime I've been thinking about a blog post
18:30:07 <gundalow> * updates in development
18:30:12 <gundalow> * updates in testing
18:30:21 <gundalow> * how //you// can help
18:30:35 <gundalow> which will also publicise the various community groups
18:31:36 <gregdek> yesyesyesyesyes
18:33:04 <gundalow> :D
18:33:30 <gundalow> Do you already have some motivational words regarding the community groups?
18:33:44 <gundalow> hum, I'll start drafting something in Google Docs
18:35:08 <gundalow> Silly things like releases always get in the way of me writing it :(
18:35:36 <gregdek> Uh, motivational words?
18:35:48 <gregdek> Like "if you want to help, thank you"? :)
18:36:15 <gundalow> Ask not what your Comunity can do for you...
18:36:33 <gregdek> Heh.
18:36:50 <gundalow> hum, maybe this will be
18:37:04 <gundalow> blog one:
18:37:07 <gundalow> * what is a WG
18:37:07 <gregdek> If the content is good, it's kind of its own motivation. "This is needed and can actually help all of us" can go a long way in a large community.
18:37:23 <gundalow> * List of each, what they've been doing
18:37:32 <gundalow> * Link to there wiki
18:37:37 <gundalow> their*
18:38:03 <gundalow> * How to get involved
18:38:09 <gundalow> * How to setup a WG
18:38:20 <gundalow> whatcha think?
18:38:35 <gundalow> then blog 2 would be about testing WG has been doing
18:38:58 <gundalow> other blogs in the future could be about the other groups
18:42:10 <gundalow> Build up a community/dev section of articles for blogsite
18:42:36 <gregdek> I like it.
18:43:28 <gundalow> gregdek: feel free to remind me I said I'd so this in a month
18:43:31 <gundalow> :)
18:43:35 <gundalow> Nothing else from me
18:44:10 <gregdek> LOL
18:44:19 <gundalow> You know it's true :)
18:44:27 <gregdek> Good intentions and such. I know.
18:44:47 <gregdek> But hey, if you want to bang together a few paragraphs in a shared Google doc, I'm happy to help.
18:45:37 <gregdek> I'll stick around for another 15m and then we'll close.
18:47:51 * gundalow -> food
18:47:54 <gundalow> gregdek: Thanks :)
18:58:18 <gregdek> #endmeeting