Scryer Prolog meetup

[aarroyoc]

It would be nice to have an online meetup to talk and discuss things related to Scryer Prolog. I've taken the idea from Idris Developers Meetings.

This meetup(s) should be a way to generate community, redistribute knowledge, and discover ideas. The main events of the meetup should be recorded, to make it accessible to people who couldn't attend and to have them available to revisit. Also they could serve as an attraction for new people interested in the system.

A tentative agenda would be composed of a Scryer Code Tour, to help people know what does what in the code; some mob programming session solving some issue or implementing something new; several Show & Tell sessions (Logtalk, HTTP server, Cryptography,...); discussions about next steps (threading, documentation, community, testing, ...).

The meetup should be probably done after the current big changes finish, which could change several things internally.

This is mostly an idea, but if enough people, including @mthom, are happy we could do it.

[mthom]

Those are all good ideas.

[aarroyoc]

I think the meetup should be held when the new "big changes" arrive, so right now there's no hurry to set a date unless you want to do it earlier.

[mthom]

How should we coordinate a meeting time now that rebis out? I think there's a rough ~8 hour time difference between myself, @triska and @aarroyoc and a 3 hour difference between myself and @dcnorris (not sure who else wants to participate but all are welcome!). That may make meeting on work days difficult.

[dcnorris]

I suggest using CLP to solve this problem.

[aarroyoc]

I agree, during work days an 8 hour time difference is too much (unless somebody has strange sleep habits :)) I suppose a good time will be during Saturday or Sunday when is evening in Europe and still morning in Canada.

As for myself, I don't have any problem during weekends, as all my compromises are easily movable. And for the next weeks, I'm not going to do anything special.

[triska]

Yes, I agree! Also for me, Sundays 20:00, 21:00 or 22:00 CET (Brussels, Madrid, Vienna etc.) would work great as a starting time for the meeting!

[mthom]

Alright. Why don't we say Sunday the 16th at 1:00 pm Mountain Standard Time? That's 21:00 CET.

[UWN]

For inter-national coordination, UTC helps a lot.

[dcnorris]

Looks to me like 20:00 UTC, with the following conversions:
13:00 MST (UTC-7)
15:00 EST (UTC-5)
21:00 CET (UTC+1)

Looking forward to our meetup!

[aarroyoc]

Seems good to me!

[triska]

Perfect, see you all on Sunday! I will probably participate via smartphone and not be able to present anything, but it would definitely be nice to celebrate the availability of the rebis-dev branch together! See you then!

[aarroyoc]

Something has happened and at 20:00 UTC I'm going to be in a car (not driving, but noisy and with more people around). An hour later would be fine. But I don't want all of you to change the previously agreed schedule if 21:00 UTC is bad for some people.

[mthom]

Something has happened and at 20:00 UTC I'm going to be in a car (not driving, but noisy and with more people around). An hour later would be fine.

I'm fine with that. Others?

[triska]

How will the meetup take place?

May I suggest a JITSI meeting, say: https://meet.jit.si/ScryerPrologMeetup

JITSI is based on open standards (WebRTC), everyone can participate via a conforming browser, and also via dedicated free apps.

[josd]

Very interesting initiative and I hope to join as much as possible.
For next Sunday it will not work for me as I'm at my sisters birthday celebration at that time.

Enjoy the rebis-dev celebration, it is really great work!

[mthom]

Alright, we'll say 21:00 UTC on Sunday. Again, everyone is welcome!

[triska]

Thank you a lot Adrián for organizing and moderating this first meetup! It was great to see you all and celebrate the availability of the rebis-dev branch together! I hope we can meet everyone who could not participate today the next time we meet!

[aarroyoc]

Thanks everyone who participated. It was very nice to hear the voices of the people that write here. Also it was nice to share our thoughts together about the next steps and how to help.