Re: Proposal: start using more text-based meetings for the bi-weekly ROCm discussions
Hello,
I used to work like this long time ago, with IRC channel, on the base of
a daily meeting at a fixed time. But also as a permanent channel to get
help or discuss whatever about the project.
I found this convenient, the only problem with IRC, is that you have to
be permanently online to catch up when you are not there, but today with
the Matrix bridge [2], it fixes the issue.
Le 07/08/2025 à 19:48, Tim Flink a écrit :
I wanted to start a conversation around how the bi-weekly ROCm
discussions are being run and propose that we consider more text-based
meetings.
Don't get me wrong, there are tangible benefits to having meetings over
audio/video:
- Harder to have misunderstandings on tone which are endemic to text
based communication
- Higher bandwidth communication
- Easier to have visual aids during discussion
I agree
At the same time, text based meetings (via IRC or Matrix) also have some
benefits:
- Can't have audio problems
- Lower network requirements
- Taking/creating minutes is much easier
- low/zero effort meeting logs if someone wants to catch up later
I also agree
Personally, I'm a fan of text-based minutes just to make minutes and
meeting logs less of a pain - most people find taking meeting notes a
bit painful in my experience. Text-based meetings do work best when the
group has the discipline to limit themselves to one topic at a time but
I've never seen that be a major issue so long as someone is doing a
decent job at running the meeting.
It looks like Debian's meetbot [1] is still running which is a variant
of the tool that I'm used to for text meeting minutes and logs but there
may be other options.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
I think I never experienced Meetbot, Codimd renamed HedgeDoc [3] is also
something convenient as a collaborative markdown pad used a lot by
academics in France.
For a bit of background, I do run Fedora's bi-weekly AI/ML SIG meetings
and when we started those, we had a discussion around whether to do
video meetings or text-based meetings. Our conclusion was to run text-
based meetings as a default but allow for scheduling a video meeting if
there were topics which could benefit from the higher communication
bandwidth or visual presentation medium.
I'm proposing that we take a similar approach for the ROCm discussions
that we currently have every other week - default to text-based meetings
unless there is a topic which would benefit from a video-based meeting.
Any thoughts on this proposal?
[2] https://app.element.io/#/room/#debian-ai:matrix.debian.social
[3] https://demo.hedgedoc.org/
Regards
Christian B.
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