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Chapter Request: Portland, Oregon, USA #84

Closed jdavisp3 closed 2 years ago

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Where: I'm interested in starting a Papers We Love chapter in Portland, OR, USA.

Who: Me (Dave Peticolas (https://krondo.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-peticolas-0bb45b1/) in collaboration with Chris Mason (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-mason-510a291/) @masoncj

When: Soon, we are getting a space secured and reaching out to more Portland contacts.

Background: I've worked in software for two decades and have a Masters in Computer Science. I'd like to encourage more reading of the literature and discussion of where the field is going. Chris is an engineering leader with an academic background and many local connections.

I've read and I accept the Code of Conduct.

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Update: we have a space and are starting to gather more interest.

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

@jdavisp3

Good to hear you are making progress. There was a Portland Chapter started in 2016, but it appears inactive. We usually have organizers work together on transition.

But I will discuss this situation with the PWL team here, and try to move this forward. Thanks for your patience.

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Thanks 👍🙂

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

@carllerche @fitzgen

There is interest in starting a new Portland Chapter. Seems the last meeting was in 2017, per twitter.

Would it be okay to transfer the repo and twitter accounts to a new team?

Hope this ping finds you well, after the past few difficult years, we are seeing new chapters form and in-person events start again... And it feels awkward. Thanks for any attention you can provide.

@jdavisp3

The old meetup page is defunct, but there was a twitter handle pwlpdx for Portland that could be useful.

The Portland repo is here: https://github.com/papers-we-love/portland

Perhaps it would nice if the chapter history was acknowledged in an archive page.

Before transferring the repo, we like the old team to acknowledge-approve the action. The previous organizers would/should be able to do this, but it has been some time, so I would handle this if they are unavailable.

If you use twitter, or know any of the previous organizers, feel welcome to reach out and see if they could turn over the twitter account -- or would be willing to help in any way.

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Thanks @hakutsuru ! I searched for an existing chapter in Meetup but I clearly missed this one. @carllerche and @fitzgen if you are interested in starting back up there's some new interest in this activity. I'm not on Twitter but we can probably find some folks who are.

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

I anticipate PWL core team will meet this week. Our primary focus is setting up PWLConf this year, but I will try to discuss chapter issues, too.

Thus, I hope to either create a different repo, or transfer the existing repo, later this week.

Sent email to previous organizers, as copied below...

From: Sean Broderick sean@paperswelove.org Subject: PWL PDX Chapter Date: May 8, 2022 at 9:12:03 PM EDT To: Carl Lerche me@carllerche.com, Nick Fitzgerald fitzgen@gmail.com Cc: Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com

Carl Lerche, Nick Fitzgerald:

Sorry to ping you out of the blue.

Dave Peticolas and Chris Mason wish to restart a chapter in Portland. Please see issue... https://github.com/papers-we-love/organizers/issues/84

If you could participate in this discussion, or contact the new team privately to chat about this, that would be appreciated. Thanks.

Sean Broderick Organizer, PWL NYC

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

PWL Core has discussed this, and I have been tasked with transferring the existing repo to the new team in the next several days.

(Without any response from the old team, legacy related resources like twitter/meetup accounts should be abandoned, and new resources with different naming created as desired.)

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Thank you @hakutsuru !

carllerche commented 2 years ago

I'm happy to hand it off, sorry for the delay.

What do you need from me?

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

@jdavisp3

I have invited you as admin on the project. As admin, you should be able to add other organizers/staff. If you would like to discuss, or have any trouble, ping me here or on slack.

We had granted the chapter-organizers team write access, but when adding your invite, this seemed to be altered. So I removed that access.

As stated, it would perhaps be worthwhile to acknowledge the chapter history (somewhere in the repo). But you are the organizer/admin, and if a clean slate helps you move on, then that is fine.

You are encouraged to join our slack -- http://papersweloveslack.herokuapp.com/

Welcome & Good Luck!

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Thanks @hakutsuru ! I am on that Slack as Dave Peticolas.

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

@carllerche

Good to hear from you! I do not think we have meet, but I suspect you know Zeeshan.

What do you need from me?

Thanks for entering the discussion.

Your acknowledgement of the transfer is helpful, and anything else may be impractical.

Here are ideas on what could be useful...

carllerche commented 2 years ago

I guess the best way to transfer the twitter account would be to change the email address. Is dave@krondo.com a good one?

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

@carllerche I don't actually have a Twitter account but I'll see if Chris might want to take it.

I already created a new Meetup Group.

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

We've got our Meetup site and the first event scheduled:

https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-pdx/events/286209448/

Anything else I need to do? Otherwise I can close this ticket.

DarrenN commented 2 years ago

Pro-tip: Post your meetups in the Slack general channel and we're happy to amplify from the main Twitter account when we can.

jdavisp3 commented 2 years ago

Pro-tip: Post your meetups in the Slack general channel and we're happy to amplify from the main Twitter account when we can.

Done! And thank you @DarrenN

hakutsuru commented 2 years ago

@jdavisp3 Appreciate the follow-up. Everything looks good. I am closing the ticket for you, because you should be doing holiday weekend stuff :)