Community calls

[astrojuanlu]

It would be good to have open community calls about Kedro and its ecosystem. Some ideas:

• Presentations from the engineering team about a specific topic
• Office hours, support requests, refactory help
• Discussion about development
• "Showcase your Kedro project"

We already have a Kedro meetup. We could leverage that, or switch to something else like Luma, or something else (tooling is not so important, the format and the cadence and the content are).

There are various ways to do it. Some inspiration from Jupyter: https://blog.jupyter.org/online-collaboration-caf%C3%A9-launch-jupyterhub-team-meetings-to-become-more-collaborative-spaces-b713edadf15

The JupyterHub community often cite the team meetings as a touchpoint for newcomers to familiarise themselves with the JupyterHub project. However, this is not always the case. The team meetings have an emergent agenda built by the community members — which is great! — but it also means that it is a potluck as to whether the meeting you happen to attend will actually be useful depending on the agenda, and a newcomer may have to attend multiple meetings over a long period before feeling comfortable to ask questions and know where they can begin to help.

By reformatting the meeting into a collaborative co-working space using breakout rooms, we can cater for both the need of newcomers to be oriented to the project, and for the community to discuss in-depth topics in an emergent nature.

Meltano Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO0YrxtDbWAtuuubcEz7mnCHoGfIf8voT, https://www.addevent.com/calendar/Li390615 (looks like they're still going)

Airbyte demo calls: https://airbyte.com/events

[stichbury]

Would be good to record them for any youtube channel. I'd be happy to have a "birds of a feather" breakout room in part of the call for documentation requests and general content discussions.

[astrojuanlu]

Or demo days: https://github.com/dask/community/issues/307