nodejs
Upcoming events page/calendar
User Story: As an active community member, I want a publicly accessible resource listing upcoming TC and WG events so that I can live stream meetings or watch them shortly after they go live on YouTube.
My specific use case is that I'm maintaining the io.js Audio account on SoundCloud, but I imagine there are other members of the community that would appreciate this kind of resource.
Depending on the scope of what we want to tackle, it may also be nice to include notable community events.
Definitely something we should do, though I think the issue has been raised previously (can't find it). @mikeal Said part of the reason they're not able to announce TC/WG meetings well in advance is they're not planned so far in advance. This might have changed, but I think it was mainly true of the TC meetings, which were (?) started on shorter notice.
Short notice (e.g. half a day) is still better than none, IMO. If nothing else it could serve as a historical record of what happened and when.
Good point @bnb, but I agree with @svincent that we've got enough folks in @iojs/evangelism ready to quickly update website and publish to social media as soon as something is scheduled
Ok, quick background here:
I built this already as "node meatspace" which was temporarily successful. It then turned in to knode events where it languished and eventually died. We tried to resurrect it under Node Forward but also failed.
There are two big problems with maintaining this:
- Balancing ease of contribution with ease of maintenance: We had a lot of people submitting when it was just a PR but that required that we manually edit and update the list every week. When it moved to a spreadsheet/template we saw a sharp decline in contributions.
- Destination events (big conferences like Web Rebels, JSConf, NodeConf, etc) get lost in a sea of small regional events. Most people care about small events near them and big global events, both of which are difficult to find in a wall of regional events.
Those are the challenges. I'd love to see a good solution :)
At the very least I think we should start an "Open Governance" / Community type landing page which highlights the inner workings of io.js, summarizes recent meetings, advertises known upcoming meetings, etc.
That would give something for both evangelism and i18n to work against.