Online Developer Meetings

[John W. Eaton]

On IRC yesterday, Carnë wrote

  I was thinking it would be nice if there was some
  way to follow Octave development. Something like
  OctConf but much more frequently and shorter.
  And since everyone is doing online meetings now,
  what about doing just that? I was imagining 1 hour
  or so a month, where people doing dev could talk
  on what they're up to.

I would be glad to participate.  Is anyone else interested in having 
periodic online developer meetings?

After a bit of discussion, it seems we could use jitsi 
(https://jitsi.org) as a free platform for conferencing, possibly using 
the instance that the FSF provides to members 
(https://www.fsf.org/associate/about-the-fsf-jitsi-meet-server).

Although the initial proposal is to have the meetings open to anyone, we 
would like to keep them focused on development topics to avoid having 
them turn into Q&A/Support sessions.

Scheduling is another minor(!) detail to work out.  Most Octave 
developers are somewhere in the US Pacific time zone to somewhere in 
Europe, so this covers about 10-11 hours difference.  Would weekends or 
weekdays work best for most people?  Perhaps it doesn't matter too much 
as we could vary the times of the meetings to allow more people to 
participate.

Comments?

jwe