Greetings Architecture Council.
I should have noticed this before, but our meeting tomorrow overlaps
with the Members Meeting. My first preference is to move our
meeting, but I assume that this will be hard this late in the game,
so I'll only be able to attend the first thirty minutes.
I'd thrown a handful of things on the agenda. Since I may not be
able to get through them all, I thought that I'd assemble a few
words of preparation here.
I'd like to nominate a couple of new members to the architecture
council. I have a few names of people who have been very active in
the Science working group that I think will be good additions. I
have some other ideas as well. I'd like to have this discussion as
early in the call as possible.
In communication with Vladimir, the project lead of the Handly
project, it occurred to me that it might be a good practice to start
a practice of making the Architecture Council more aware of some of
the projects that we help/oversee. I had originally though that this
might take the form of a ten minute presentation at the beginning of
our calls, but am open to other suggestions. Some of our project
teams just don't know how to grow interest in their work and could
benefit greatly some some mindshare in the AC, some advice on the
sorts of things that they should do, and maybe a connection or two.
The first deliverable from my discussion with Vladimir is a blog
post:
https://pisv.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/handle-based-models-with-handly/
EclipseCon is coming. I intend to host a Hackathon like what we did
at EclipseCon Europe and your involvement will be very valuable in
making it a success. This is mostly just FYI for now, but the
Hackathon presents, I think, a very good opportunity to engage with
the community and with each other. There's a handful of very
interesting bugs being discussed in the IDE mailing list that I
think may benefit from some face-to-face discussion.
Also, I'd like to revive the face-to-face meeting at EclipseCon [1].
Please provide your input into the Doodle poll so that we can
determine the best time to schedule it [2]. Note that we've been
talking internally about being creative with the schedule and maybe
trying to leverage some of the in-conference time for things like
the face-to-face and members meeting.
FInally, please sign up for the incubation@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
[3]. Most of the usual suspects have already signed up, but it would
be good to have the ranks more filled out before we start signing up
incubating project committers.
Thanks,
Wayne
[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseCon2016/Councils_Face-to-Face
[2] http://doodle.com/poll/7xphrzbeis678d5n
[3] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation
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Wayne Beaton
@waynebeaton
The Eclipse Foundation
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