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Introducing "office hours" community calls #113

Open jaimergp opened 9 months ago

jaimergp commented 9 months ago

One of the unconference segments in the NumFOCUS summit 2023 in Amsterdam was dedicated to packaging and we spoke a lot about how PyData maintainers experience friction when they are testing workflows or contributing packages to the conda ecosystem. One of the action items hinted at the necessity for better documentation and educational materials.

Inspired by the Numpy Newcomers meetings, I wonder if the conda (and conda-forge) communities would benefit from having such a space where novice (or not so novice!) users can pass by and ask their questions. Our current community calls have a tint of core decision making, expert discussions and reporting that might make it unaccessible or daunting to those that just want to solve a couple doubts.

My intention would be to run this session one hour before the core calls in case the attendees want to stay. With good note taking, we might be able to accumulate good documentation drafts for proper content in conda.org, FAQs and whatnot.

Tagging @travishathaway and @tnabtaf for their interest and alignment, but anyone is welcome to drop their thoughts here!

jezdez commented 9 months ago

I've participated in the NumFOCUS summit unconference session and wholeheartedly agree that it would be beneficial to provide office hours, if possible, in a way combining the two sister projects conda and conda-forge.

If we do it, let's also add it to the https://conda.org/community/calendar calendar as well.

travishathaway commented 9 months ago

I'm onboard with this 😄.

I'd be happy to write a quick blog post announcing these, "office hours" for conda.org too.