Evolving General User Feedback by hosting an online Node.js Meetup

[dshaw]

The last couple General User Feedback sessions have struggled to get traction with Users.

We have decided to pivot and help offer more content and connectivity to the Node.js project by hosting an online meetup. We will also take advantage of Meetup.com's infrastructure which does a great job of managing recurring meetups.

TODO:

• Create issue for first meetup
• Create meetup page
• Plan meetup program
  • 5pm ET Gather and socialize
  • Talks from 5:30pm to 6:30pm ET
  • 6:30pm to 7:00pm open discussion
• Invite meetup guests

[boneskull]

Can the tooling effort leverage this as well?

[boneskull]

cc @bcoe

[mhdawson]

@boneskull what did you have in mind. We were thinking that a meetup would be better in terms of getting broader participation than we've been able to achieve in the general working group and that it might be a funnel for people in the other user-feedback efforts.

Is it that you think the interaction provided scheduling as a meetup as opposed to github issues would be easier and more accessible for those involved in the tooling user feedback effort as well.

[boneskull]

@mhdawson I don't know. if we can get more people, I'll try anything. Mainly, I just want to hitch the wagon to something "official".

What I'm curious about is this: meetup.com meetups are specific to cities. , right? Yet I'm assuming that a Node.js User Feedback meetup would be (at least partially) "virtual". Even if the user feedback group is able to draw attention off of the platform, the meetup will have a discoverability problem on meetup.com itself.

That said, there is a meetup (in the bay area) specifically for some popular tools written in Node.js, which is led by @bcoe. Might be an opportunity to gather feedback from that group, specifically--or even try to expand it with videoconferencing.

[mhdawson]

@boneskull we have not thought through all of the challenges yet. In the last meeting we were discussing that one of the problems with the general group is that not everybody was comfortable with github and the workflow we were using. We came up with the idea of using the meetup infra as an already existing infrastructure.

What I'd suggest is that we work through the issues for the general user-feedback group and then after we better understand the pros/cons figure out if it makes any sense for the other sub-groups as well.

[mhdawson]

@dshaw any update on this?

[boneskull]

Sounds like it's on the agenda for Friday. I'd like to better understand the challenges here

[mhdawson]

I won't be able to make the meeting, but very interested so will catch up with one of the people who is to see what the discussion was on this front.

[dshaw]

Yes. https://www.meetup.com/Nodejs-Online-Meetup/

[dshaw]

September meetup invitation: https://github.com/nodejs/user-feedback/issues/90

[dshaw]

Note the v12 release date is targeting for 2018-04-23.

Source of truth: https://github.com/nodejs/release#release-schedule