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Swarm swarm #829

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byorgey opened this issue Nov 5, 2022 · 33 comments
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Swarm swarm #829

byorgey opened this issue Nov 5, 2022 · 33 comments
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byorgey commented Nov 5, 2022

I had the idea of trying to organize a sort of virtual Swarm get-together/hackathon (which should, of course, be called a "swarm" 😉), open to anyone, both regular contributors as well as newcomers. The goal would just be to have fun working on Swarm together, perhaps make some progress on bigger/more difficult issues, perhaps onboard some new contributors, etc. The purpose of this issue is to gauge interest and figure out some details.

  1. Would you be interested in attending such a thing?
  2. If so, do you have opinions about modes of interaction?
    • For example, we could just keep it to IRC, or we could set up a discord channel, or a gather.town space, etc.
    • Something that supports screen sharing would probably be nice.
    • The big question is whether we should have some kind of audio and/or video chat. On the one hand that can be really fun and much higher bandwidth than IRC. On the other hand I want to be sensitive to the fact that some people might not be as comfortable with audio or video chat. I wouldn't want a situation where some people felt excluded because they were uncomfortable with audio/video chat for whatever reason.
  3. What kind of dates/times might work for you?
    • Personally, I wouldn't be able to do this until after my semester is over around the beginning of December. The week of December 12 would work particularly well for me. But other times could work too, and if we have to plan much farther out to find a time that will work, that's fine.
    • What time zone are you in, and what kind of waking hours do you regularly keep?
  4. Any other thoughts?

Tagging people who have been involved currently or in the past and who might potentially be interested: @xsebek @kostmo @valyagolev @ussgarci @0xcefaedfe @polux @TristanCacqueray @fryguybob @twitu @lsmor @noahyor
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That sounds great to me. I'd be happy to try gather.town, or use another platform as you prefer. The week of December 12 works for me, I'm in EST. It might be nice to have some sort of an agenda to set the expectation, e.g. duration, topic ideas (e.g. tutorial, roadmap, #50), ...

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ussgarci commented Nov 6, 2022 •
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  1. Count me in! 👍
  2. I'm partial to Discord as I already have an account. I know it supports screen sharing and audio chat. Gather Town would be fine too.
  3. The week of December 12 works for me. I'm in CST and would be available anytime after 8am.

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xsebek commented Nov 6, 2022

  1. Sure, that sounds cool. 👍
  2. I would like to try Gather Town, but I can use anything that runs in a browser or on Linux. 🙂
    • I think audio and screen sharing could make communication easier and faster
  3. After the semester works for me. I am in CET (UTC +1) but I can continue late into the night. 🌃

I like @TristanCacqueray's suggestion about focusing on something concrete. I have never done any hackathons, what are good criteria to select a focus? Or is it best not to choose and let everyone individually improve Swarm and discuss implementation? 🤔

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byorgey commented Nov 6, 2022

Re: focus/agenda, I don't want to impose some kind of top-down structure, but I agree it is useful to know in advance how we might use the time. The usual thing would be to make a wiki page ahead of time and let everyone put ideas of what they want to work on etc., and let some kind of agenda coalesce around that.

Or is it best not to choose and let everyone individually improve Swarm and discuss implementation?

I think it's best not to choose one single focus --- everyone has different things they are excited about and that's good and healthy. But that also doesn't mean we must all just work individually --- people can post ideas of things they want to work on and try to convince others to join them. And I hope that if we use something like gather.town there will be a lot of organic wandering around, seeing what other people are up to, and jumping in to help.

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byorgey commented Dec 5, 2022 •
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Based on everyone's responses, I will concretely suggest Wednesday, December 14, at this time:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Swarm+swarm&iso=20221214T14&p1=%3A&ah=9

That's 8am-5pm CST / 9am-6pm EST / 2pm-11pm UTC. Of course everyone should feel free to come and go whenever you can/want.

  • Let me know if that time no longer works for you! We can easily switch to a different day.
  • I will set up a virtual space in gather.town. EDIT: Here it is! https://app.gather.town/app/SpqG1ic5pNKM7YqS/The%20Swarm%20Hive
  • I think it makes sense to just commit to one day to start, but if it goes really well and people want to continue for another day or two that would be possible as well.

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byorgey commented Dec 12, 2022

The Swarm Hive on gather.town

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byorgey commented Dec 14, 2022

Thanks everyone for coming today! It was fun meeting everyone and talking about stuff. We should definitely do this again sometime. The Swarm Hive on gather.town will remain accessible anytime. I may just hang out in there sometimes if I'm hacking on Swarm. I'll probably be around for at least part of the day tomorrow though I have some grading I have to do as well.

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byorgey commented May 30, 2023

How about another gathering/Hackthon/Swarm swarm/whatever you want to call it? Next week sometime, perhaps? I think @ussgarci said Tuesdays or Fridays work best, both would work for me (i.e. June 6 or June 9). Any other time preferences/constraints from others who might want to join? @kostmo ? @xsebek ? @valyagolev @0xcefaedfe @polux @TristanCacqueray @fryguybob @twitu @lsmor ?

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xsebek commented May 30, 2023

Hey, sounds great! 😁 This would be a great way for me to get back into Swarm.

My trial period at work ends tomorrow, so I will look for some easy tasks to get familiar with the code again.

@byorgey do you want to make a new Issue or reopen this one? 🙂

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kostmo commented May 30, 2023

I vote for June 9.

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ussgarci commented May 30, 2023 •
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➕ 1 for June 9th 😎

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I'll be on vacation this week, not sure I'll be able to join. Enjoy!

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byorgey commented Jun 1, 2023

Sounds like June 9 is the winner! I'll be able to start around 9am CDT / 2pm UTC if that works for everyone.

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byorgey commented Jun 8, 2023

See you all tomorrow on https://app.gather.town/app/SpqG1ic5pNKM7YqS/The%20Swarm%20Hive at 9am CDT / 2pm UTC !

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kostmo commented Jun 9, 2023

I should be able to join at +3hrs (5pm UTC)

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kostmo commented Jun 9, 2023

We can try out the GitHub Discussions feature to take notes: #1312 (comment)

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byorgey commented May 30, 2024

Let's do another Swarm swarm! How about June 13, 14, or 15 (Thursday, Friday, or Saturday) 2024? It's been mostly me and @kostmo holding down the fort recently (and there are some really cool features in the works!) but would love to have this be a chance for some others to get involved again. Reply with preferences if you'd be interested.

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byorgey commented May 30, 2024

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Very much happy to join. The dates work for me!

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kostmo commented May 30, 2024

I'm available at 1pm PDT on June 15.

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byorgey commented May 30, 2024

@nitinprakash96 what time zone are you in?

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I am in IST (UTC +5:30) @byorgey

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byorgey commented Jun 1, 2024

How about we plan to start sometime in the range 9-11am CDT / 7-9am PDT / 7:30-9:30pm IST. @nitinprakash96 you can stay as long as you want, not sure how late you want to stay up, and @kostmo can come later whenever he is available. How does that sound?

I don't yet know exactly what time I will be available to start since @noahyor will have his final band camp performance that morning, and the time depends on which band he is selected for. I will post here once I know more details.

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noahyor commented Jun 1, 2024

I would, however love to come to the Swarm swarm.

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byorgey commented Jun 1, 2024

@noahyor I assume you'll be coming home right after the final concert so you can participate in the Swarm swarm.

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noahyor commented Jun 1, 2024

Most likely.

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I can join anytime from 7:30 PM to 12:30 AM (I usually stay up a little late).

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twitu commented Jun 6, 2024

I'm in IST (UTC + 530) and I can join on any of the three days 😄

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byorgey commented Jun 12, 2024 •
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OK, we will plan to start at 16:00 UTC on Saturday, June 15 (10am PDT / 11am CDT / 9:30pm IST). As usual we will meet in The Swarm Hive on Gather.town. Check out the wiki page for more info.

Note that 16:00 UTC will be the "official" start time but the Swarm Hive is always open. If anyone wants to hang out in there earlier (especially those in IST, since it sounds like there will be at least 2 of you), feel free!

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byorgey commented Jun 12, 2024

@ltouro would be glad to have you join!

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