Meetup #1 on Google Hangouts On Air

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#1

Hi everyone,

I’d like to start a new initiative, which is to do regular online meetups where users and developers of XWiki can meet and discuss problems, ideas, tell others what they’re doing with XWiki, etc.

I think we’re missing a bit of visual interactions and while the Forum is great for asking questions, some visual meetup would also help create a stronger community bond.

WDYT?

Since it’s going to be hard to agree on a date for everyone and since this is a personal initiative that I’d like to lead, I’m going to propose to do this once per month at a fixed date/time, and then see how it goes.

Next meetup details:

I hope I won’t be the only one to join the meetup ! :wink:

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#2

Sure. We would like to join it. It is a nice initiative.

#3

Awesome!

#4

I guess it’s possible to integrate it as a youtube widget in a dev.xwiki.org page.

#5

Good idea but for me it’s not a dev initiative; It’s more for users of XWiki and I’d prefer to either have a blog post about each meetup agenda or somehow included on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/News

Anyway I’d like to see how the first one goes before pushing it too fast. I don’t want to make it too “official” for the moment and right now I consider this to be a personal initiative. We can decide later on if we want it to be a project’s initiative and promoted as part of the XWiki project on xwiki.org.

#6

For me dev.xwiki.org is the community life wiki (you have documentation about the forum, etc.).

#8

Sounds great! See you then :slight_smile:

#9

Very nice, I’ll try to be there !

#10

Starting in 1 hour from now! come join us!

#11

Ok so the first meetup happened and we had 5 participants! It’s a start :slight_smile:

Special thanks to Keith for joining.

Here’s the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUvIohaotW4

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#12

Enjoyed meeting all of you and great discussion!

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#13

I was there too. make it 6 :wink: . Due to some constraints was unable to participate actively.

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#14

oh cool @nickhil :slight_smile: Initially I gave the wrong link (I gave the youtube one instead of the hangout one). Next time I’ll improve. I’ll schedule the next meeting sometime today.

#15

I will try to join your next meeting (need to steal a 4G phone to bypass our naughty proxy)

#16

I need to find out why the youtube live recording only recorded Keith’s face instead of recording the face of the speaker (hangout switches the webcam to the speaker’s face). If anyone has an idea, let me know so that we can improve the second meetup recording. Thx

#17

What’s wrong with my face? :slight_smile:

#18

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

#19

Your face is perfect! :slight_smile:

#20

Note: I’ve moved the video from my personal account to the xwiki committers one: It’s now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLwZ8DenWMA