Community meetings?

Contributor & Development Discussion scipy
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Hi all - I mentioned it on the Community meetings thread but just confirming here. I won’t be able to join the Community meeting today due to a conflicting meeting. This is going to be a regular thing so I’m not sure when I’ll be able to join next for this timeslot. I also don’t know how useful these meetings are for the community at the moment (sometimes I’m there all by myself :upside_down_face:) so maybe it’s worth making it a different time or cancelling alltogether. If you have an opinion, please let me know.

Cheers!

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I for one appreciate the work that you put in to organise them. In general it’s just hard to build community online.

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Thank you for bringing this up and for organizing the community meetings for such a long time now Melissa!

I think the effort invested in organizing these meetings has been valuable. It has allowed maintainers to meet each other in video calls after collaborating in an async-only manner before, building better personal connections. And also allowed new contributors who showed up to see the faces behind the GitHub handles.

That said, it’s been a struggle to get enough people to attend, and after a couple of years of running these the attendance numbers have consistently hovered in the 1-5 range. Given that it’s often the same folks, who now know each other better, there are diminishing returns from continuing the calls. So I’d be in favor of cancelling them at this point (I don’t think moving to a different time slot will help, we’ve tried multiple already). We can still organize one-off meetings around a large/hot topic when that makes sense, and that may appeal to more folks.

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Hi folks, given the responses and attendance records, I am cancelling the SciPy community meetings from now and removing them from the calendar. I will also go ahead and remove the New Contributor Meetings. If you’d like to host those meetings in the future, we can always get them back.

Thanks,

Melissa

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Hi folks! @fruzsinaagocs and I were interested in contributing riccaticpp to scipy and saw that this meeting no longer exists :frowning:

We made a post on the discourse here. Is there a suggested way to have a meeting or direct discussion with developers about proposed contributions?