[mlpack] Regular mlpack video chats (in 2020)

[Marcus Edel]

Thanks for organizing the meeting, I think a regular meeting is a great idea,
see you January 9th.

> On 23. Dec 2019, at 03:59, Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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