[mlpack] Regular mlpack video chats (in 2020)

[Ryan Curtin]

Hey everyone,

I'm really sorry that I have been so slow to act on this.  Most of the
end of November and December so far have been traveling, so it's been
hard for me to keep up.  But in any case...

I would say that the mlpack video meet-up that we did a handful of weeks
ago was a success, and many people said that they'd like to do it more
often.  So I think that we should set up something regular---but, given
that it's the end-of-year break for many people, let's wait until 2020
to get these going.

To keep it simple, here's my proposal, based on the time survey results
from the poll I sent out many weeks ago:

 * We can have a video meet-up every two weeks, for an hour.

 * We'll alternate scheduling to accomodate timezones around the world:
   one time, it'll be Thursday at 1800 UTC.  The next time, it'll be on
   Wednesday at 2200 UTC.

 * Like before, we won't have any specific agenda.  So the video
   meet-ups are useful in that we can talk about anything (perhaps even
   debugging, etc.), and there's no preparation necessary beforehand.
   In fact I think it's perfectly okay if nobody even talks about
   mlpack.

We can be flexible on those times if we need; I'm just going off the
survey results.  And this of course doesn't preclude any other video
meetings or meet-ups that people want to do. :)

We can start the second week of January (so, Thursday, January 9th, 1800
UTC).  We can make sure a reminder email gets sent for anyone that's
interested, and we can use Zoom again, since NumFOCUS has provided us
with a paid Zoom account.

Feel free to respond with any thoughts or questions. :)

Thanks!

Ryan

-- 
Ryan Curtin    | "So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular
ryan at ratml.org | chickens?" - Henry Spencer