[ANNOUNCE] Virtual Contributor's Summit 2023

Hi everybody,

As I mentioned a ~month ago[1], GitHub is not hosting an in-person Git Merge this year. Instead, we're focusing our efforts on hosting a Virtual Contributor's Summit, the details of which are below.

  - We'll host the Contributor's Summit on either Zoom or Microsoft
    Teams (since GitHub is in the process of transitioning from the
    former to the latter).

  - The schedule/duration is not fixed, there are options to vote on
    preferred days, length, and timezones in the form(s) below.

  - To participate, you must be either (a) an active Git contributor,
    (b) planning on contributing soon, or (c) working on a Git-related
    project that has interest in Git's internals. If you aren't sure
    whether or not you are welcome, please ask!

Participants should fill out the following forms:

  - https://forms.gle/xiRcJWBAWJjWR7Zh6 (participants)
  - https://forms.gle/rQ5oWVSVBwyPZ1K29 (topics)

The participants and topics lists are being recorded in the spreadsheet below, and this is also the place to record your vote(s) on topic selection.

  http://bit.ly/git-contributors-summit-2023

Please send any feedback or suggestions you have for this year's Contributor's Summit to me on- or off-list. My hope for this year is to have a smaller, remote-friendly, diverse, and efficient discussion. As we get closer to the date, we'll finalize the schedule, make sure we have volunteers to take notes, etc.

I'm looking forward to seeing everybody (virtually) soon :-).

Thanks, Taylor

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZJoDjnr+FkgrDsKA@nand.local/

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 02:23:36PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

FYI, I added the first week of October as a potential set of dates as well.

I configured the participants form to accept at most one response per person, but with the ability to edit any existing response.

This configuration seems to require a Google account, please let me know if that's an issue for anyone.

Thanks, Taylor

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

Since it's virtual this year, my team is considering hosting a "watch party" in Silicon Valley, to get at least a few folks to be able to meet face to face, even though we can't travel. Basically, we'd book a conference room at some Google office, invite local contributors to come along, and dial into the summit from that room - nothing fancy, no extra programming, maybe catering. Before we make any solid plans it would help to know how many people would be interested in such a thing. If you're already planning to attend the summit and would be interested in attending such a thing, could you direct-reply and let me know?

Thanks,
 - Emily

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 10:56:35AM -0700, Emily Shaffer wrote:

Sounds fun, thanks for organizing. I think my only request would be that attendees sign up through the forms linked above, and that we limit attendees to folks who meet the criteria (active Git contributor, or planning on becoming one).

I wouldn't be able to make it, but I hope that others do.

Thanks, Taylor

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 1:10 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

Now that we have dates (thanks Taylor!) I'm happy to confirm that Google is indeed able to host a "watch party" at one of our offices in Sunnyvale (specifics TBD). As Taylor emphasized, we're only able to invite people who already meet the criteria he named and have signed up on the main sheet. If you are one of those people and haven't already gotten in touch with me, please do so, it would be fun to spend some in person time :)

For those who did already get in touch with me, I'll send details without the rest of the list shortly.

Thanks!
 - Emily

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 02:23:36PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

Now that most folks have filled out the forms, it looks like the winning dates are 2029-09-26 and 2023-09-27. Among those dates, there was a pretty even split between preferring a single day (with 9 votes), and preferring two days (with 8 votes).

Let's plan on meeting on both:

  - 2023-09-26: from 10am to 2pm CDT (UTC-5)
  - 2023-09-27: from 10am to 2pm CDT (UTC-5)

The meeting will be hosted on Zoom, and I'll email folks separately off-list with the meeting URL and passcode to join.

If you have any topics you'd like to discuss or lead, make sure to add them to the "Topics" sheet at:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EnhmTeEqRBlEI2pMAO3oZ4rO1xEwBzYp2vS4CMtvge8

Between now and then, please also feel free to share any thoughts on how we should schedule topics, organize note-takers, make sure the discussion keeps flowing and includes everybody, etc.

See you then!

Thanks, Taylor