Revisiting the scope of the JSON Schema Office Hours

[benjagm]

ℹ️ Context:

In the last Open Community Working Meeting I suggested an idea of having 2 different Open Community Meetings:

1. The Open Community Working Meeting with focus on the Spec.
2. Another meeting 100% focused on Community.

And my argument is I strongly feel that we need more spaces 100% Community driven where implementers, adopters and Schema designers can share their knowledge and engage in insightful discussions. As part of the discussion @jviotti and others reminded my about the Office Hours session which actually doesn't have agenda and the goal is Q&A and open discussions and seems to be the right place to add more Community drive content.

In addition I shared this survey with the Community to capture insights about what is the Community perception about the scope and engagement of the Open Community Working Meetings and the Office Hours Sessions so we can know better what is working and what is not working. (The survey is still open)

💬 Discussion:

The goal is to discuss how do we feel about adding a bit more of structure and community content to the monthly office hours sessions. I personally would like to:

• Create an issue to co-create the agenda of the session.
• Start a show and tell culture where Implementers demo their tooling or new features, Adopters show how they use JSON Schema and other Community Members share or demo their JSON Schema innovations and challenges.
• A possible agenda may be:
  1. Community Updates
  2. Community presentation of the day
  3. Q&A and other discussions

🚀 Let's discuss:
We'd love to get your thoughts and feedback:

• How do you feel about the current format of the Office Hours Session?
• What do you think about this proposal?
• Any other proposal?

Thanks everyone!

[benjagm]

I think the current format of Office Hours is great for Q&A and I suggest having a different monthly session just for community topics/updates.

[benjagm]

As discussed in the last OCWM #688, we'll start a monthly Community session the third week of the month using a timezone friendly with US/LATAM/APAC.

[benjagm]

We discussed again about this in the OCWM of past 2024-04-15 #695 we the team suggested to keep the Office Hours scope consistent in both timezones so my next proposal is:

• APAC/Americas friendly every 2 months
  • Office Hours first Tuesday at 15:00 PT
  • Community Meeting third Thursday at 15:00 PT
• Europe/Americas friendly every 2 months
  • Office Hours first Tuesday at 15:00 BST
  • Community Meeting third Thursday at 16:00 UTC

This will require volunteers to act as facilitators for different timezones.

[benjagm]

Let me share a second proposal with a gradual approach for the new Community meetings I am suggesting:

For the existing Office Hours:

• APAC/Americas friendly every 2 months
  • First Tuesday at 15:00 PT
• Europe/Americas friendly every 2 months
  • First Tuesday at 15:00 BST

For the new monthly Community Meeting for updates and talks:

• Third Thursday at 16:00 UTC