Community Leadership Team

June 2013 Community Leadership Meetup

2013-05-14T20:16:55Z

Hi all,

It's that time again - time for another leadership meetup! You can review the last meeting's minutes, and think about your availability for this next one. We should have had it in Q1, but I've unfortunately not had time to plan! So I'm shooting for mid-June. I'm also thinking of

I propose we have a meetup to cover the community happenings the last several months. I've created a Doodle to help us pick a date. NOTE: The doodle knows of timezones. Be sure to pick yours from the list before viewing the times, so you are viewing local times and not California time.

Topic's I'd like to cover in no particular order (please suggest more!)

- Status of open issues from last meeting
- Liferay Website update: We talked with the web team at the last meeting, so I'd like to give an update, and discuss some of the features (and their performance) like ideation, community blogging, etc.
- Status of upcoming CE Milestones and CE releases, Beta Smackdown
- Changes to Marketplace w/r/t PACL
- Regular community Q&A
- Community Programs updates (BugSquad, CV, Security Team, etc)
- Community Metrics

Please check off the times you are able to meet on the Doodle! I tried to provide a range of dates and times to fit the differing timezones, but it's impossible for everyone to be happy, so if you elect to attend at an inconvenient hour for you, I really appreciate it and hope you can understand the difficulties of living in our solar system, with Earth's annoying habit of orbiting around the sun. I am also going to recruit some new members, and I'd suggest you do the same if you know of someone interested in the future of our community!

RE: Liferay 6.1 CE and BugSquad

2013-03-05T16:30:06Z

Would be great if you add me with the BugSquad Team.

- Gnaniyar Zubair

November/December 2012 Meetup Minutes

2012-12-13T18:41:29Z

Hi all,

Thanks for the interesting and spirited chat last week, and thanks to the Liferay web team for participating! You can find the notes and minutes below:

Meeting Notes
Meeting Recording (Part 1, Part 2)

There are TODOs for me, Davey, and Ryan. I'll be following up on mine in the next week or two.

RE: MARK YOUR CALENDARS RE: November 2012 Meetup

2012-11-30T20:41:02Z

Hi Everyone,

First I wanted to say thank you for letting us join the call. We really appreciate your time and all that you do for Liferay. We really would not be where we are today with out you. Which is why we wanted to be sure to hear your thoughts on how we can make liferay.com better.

In the mean time take a look at this blog post that our good friend Ron has posted about some of the steps we are taking toward making a better website. If you got a few mins give us some of your thoughts too.

Thanks again,
David

MARK YOUR CALENDARS RE: November 2012 Meetup

2012-11-28T17:55:21Z

James Falkner:

Hi all,

It's that time again - time for another leadership meetup! You can review the last meeting's minutes, and think about your availability for this next one. We should have had it in September, but I've unfortunately not had time to plan one due to the busy symposium season and wanted to wait for the survey to be complete to share the results.

So I propose we have a meetup to cover the community happenings the last several months. I've created a Doodle to help us pick a date. NOTE: The doodle knows of timezones. Be sure to pick yours from the list before viewing the times, so you are viewing local times and not California time.

Topic's I'd like to cover in no particular order (please suggest more!)

- Status of open issues from last meeting
- Liferay Website update: A couple of engineers from the liferay.com web team are going to attend to talk about upcoming website updates and get your feedback on what we can do better/differently. As a preface, we are going to upgrade liferay.com to 6.1 and then embark on a redesign of the site to better serve you and the rest of the community!
- Review survey results (James)
- Release Date and Status Dashboard (James)
- Community Programs updates (BugSquad, CV, Security Team, etc)

Please check off the times you are able to meet on the Doodle! I tried to provide a range of dates and times to fit the differing timezones, but it's impossible for everyone to be happy, so if you elect to attend at an inconvenient hour for you, I really appreciate it and hope you can understand the difficulties of living in our solar system, with Earth's annoying habit of orbiting around the sun

Ok, it looks like Tuesday, December 4th at 12 noon (California time) is a GO. Here are the times in other timezones:

12pm US/Pacific
3pm US/Eastern
9pm Europe/Berlin
7am (Wednesday) Australia/Sydney

We will go with the above agenda.

November 2012 Meetup

2012-11-19T22:23:10Z

Hi all,

It's that time again - time for another leadership meetup! You can review the last meeting's minutes, and think about your availability for this next one. We should have had it in September, but I've unfortunately not had time to plan one due to the busy symposium season and wanted to wait for the survey to be complete to share the results.

So I propose we have a meetup to cover the community happenings the last several months. I've created a Doodle to help us pick a date. NOTE: The doodle knows of timezones. Be sure to pick yours from the list before viewing the times, so you are viewing local times and not California time.

Topic's I'd like to cover in no particular order (please suggest more!)

- Status of open issues from last meeting
- Liferay Website update: A couple of engineers from the liferay.com web team are going to attend to talk about upcoming website updates and get your feedback on what we can do better/differently. As a preface, we are going to upgrade liferay.com to 6.1 and then embark on a redesign of the site to better serve you and the rest of the community!
- Review survey results (James)
- Release Date and Status Dashboard (James)
- Community Programs updates (BugSquad, CV, Security Team, etc)

Please check off the times you are able to meet on the Doodle! I tried to provide a range of dates and times to fit the differing timezones, but it's impossible for everyone to be happy, so if you elect to attend at an inconvenient hour for you, I really appreciate it and hope you can understand the difficulties of living in our solar system, with Earth's annoying habit of orbiting around the sun

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-06-07T17:46:13Z

Tomáš Polešovský:

James, thank you for the recording!

Guys, I'm sorry I didn't manage to be online The recordings are helpful, I listened till the end (it was very long ), but it's not like be there with you.

One note: I see many long-term goals that are not watched and so forgot. For example (although Corné has it on his board - +1 for Corné!) I totally forgot to continue our community survey So private space for tasks/communication/whatever may be helpful. Another topic there could be the user group leaders communications as I also would like to know more from the Spanish user group, if they would like to share ... On the other hand - to create the space just for the 2 topics is waste of time.

-- tom

Hey Tomas et al,

Just following up on a few items: University outreach content is underway! We have an intern here helping to put together the package (presentations,swag, curriculums, etc). So work on that has finally begun.

After the meetup, Corne and I bugged Rhys from MyOffice24x7,so he is picking up the survey questions Corne and others developed and putting them online. Once we get them, we can review and publish.

Dave: I owe you an answer on inline editing in Liferay - answer forthcoming, the people that decide those things have been at some ~~boondoggle~~offsite this week

Drew: care to take a stab at a CV program for this summer?

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-29T13:43:06Z

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-24T00:34:22Z

Sorry I missed it, was on my honeymoon...

Will have to listen to the recordings...

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-23T21:09:25Z

Ryan Terwedo:

My calendar syncing tool was not working it turned out, and the only other appointment my assistant scheduled this development week was for 1pm PST today.

Suffice it to say, I cannot make it. Any recording of the meeting (like webex or goto meeting) would be awesome. My bad on the dates, sorry.

The minutes and recording [part 1, part deux] are now available. Enjoy. One of the feedback items was that we have these great meetings, but no continuity or discussion *between* meetings (we all just go back to our regular jobs). That's one of the reasons this forum exists, but I need to do a better job of following up here, instead of privately. Thank you all for being a constant in our community!

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-21T18:53:49Z

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-18T11:49:39Z

Ryan Terwedo:

James-- At some point can we chat (or direct me) to the accepted way for us to release some of our internal business portlets to the open source community? We aren't talking about something crazy cool, just stuff that connects to a db and displays it in a table with inline editing etc.

Yep, will contact you offline.

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-17T09:49:13Z

James Falkner:

We ran out of time to discuss this last time, and have instituted a new policy for new user groups (that they be led by at least one non-Liferay and one non-Partner person). I'd like to see if there's more we need to do here.

The Liferay providers (partners and non partners) are having fierce competition of projects. I think the providers should be able to lead community, but together with other providers and Liferay users.

"provider" = company who is delivering projects for external clients.

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-16T17:27:33Z

James Falkner:

Ok, the best time is Monday, May 21 @ 1pm US/Pacific (4pm US/Eastern, 2200 CEST) so we will choose that date. Here is the agenda:

- Status of open issues from last meeting (most notably, Ideation proposals)
- Review of this team's activity over the last year, what we can do better or change
- Recap of Liferay company activities (release roadmap, policies that affect community, etc)
- Drafting/grooming of new leaders
- Handling of Security-related issues - we are going to institute a new community patch team to most importantly get security issues fixed in CE releases.
- User Group conflicts

Of course we can chat about any other issues that you guys wish to talk about. I will create a google doc as always so that we can follow along and take notes. We will also use skype, I believe I have everyone's contact information, so I will send out a message on skype about an hour before.

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-16T11:42:00Z

Juan Fernández:

James Falkner:

- User Group conflicts

Can you explain a little bit about this? Did I miss anything?
Thanks!

You don't have this problem at all in the LSUG, but this refers to the conflict of interest in some user groups where there is a business interest placed ahead of the community's interest. We ran out of time to discuss this last time, and have instituted a new policy for new user groups (that they be led by at least one non-Liferay and one non-Partner person). I'd like to see if there's more we need to do here.

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-16T10:51:52Z

James Falkner:

- User Group conflicts

Can you explain a little bit about this? Did I miss anything?
Thanks!

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-16T08:19:22Z

James Falkner:

Juan Gonzalez P:

I realised I was the "missing" piece for getting a common date-time for the meeting.

I've changed doodle so now everybody can meet up in may 21 th at 22:00 (spanish Time Zone).

Thanks Juan, yes, that time is looking like the winner. I will send one more email reminder and we'll set the final date early next week.

Also, on patches, yes, we (in the community, not the corporate Liferay) will begin doing CE patches as soon as 6.1 CE GA2 is released. There are many fixes and the release is scheduled very soon so we will wait until then to start producing patches. More details to come!

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-09T20:41:19Z

Juan Gonzalez P:

I realised I was the "missing" piece for getting a common date-time for the meeting.

I've changed doodle so now everybody can meet up in may 21 th at 22:00 (spanish Time Zone).

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-05-08T14:34:20Z

I realised I was the "missing" piece for getting a common date-time for the meeting.

I've changed doodle so now everybody can meet up in may 21 th at 22:00 (spanish Time Zone).

RE: May 2012 Community Leadership Team Meetup

2012-04-19T13:41:14Z

At least critical security bug fixes should be also come to CE.

Community could take some actions from this of back porting these to different LR versions.