On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:04 PM Davydenko, Denis < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Apache MXNet community, > Hello. > I would like to submit for your consideration updated and improved > suggestion for Apache MXNet User Groups meetings: [1]. Main goals of this > initiative are: > > - make it easy: users and developers should be able to understand what is > Group Meeting and how to participate in it in under 60 seconds > Maybe. > > - make it real: users and developers will have access to Apache MXNet > committers and contributors live and can discuss their topics in person > OK > > - make it scalable: it should be easy for Apache MXNet community members > to join initiative and host more User Groups meetings on their own schedule > Well, we can do something for hosting such in Ukraine - but that is a pretty good question: why would they go to Ukraine, from nearby countries (considering that local developers/engineers could be interested by default)? I as for local attendees - I might assume that they might even be interested to come to Germany, cause of that (for a week, for instance - and come to your local office). > > - make it fun: there should be minimal process to run User Groups meetings > Which would not be supported by Amazon? How do you imagine that? > Please note this wiki page’s purpose is to introduce and describe > initiative for Apache MXNet community and seek improvements/changes > suggestions. We might provide contributors, for composing this in Russian and Ukrainian, too. > User facing document will be separate and will only contain short > paragraph on what is User Group meetings are and how to participate (see > above: user should be able to understand it in under 60 seconds). > OK, that is predictable. > There were couple quite successful pilot sessions hosted by group of > Apache MXNet developers in Berlin. Users clearly likes this channel of > communication and this initiative is an effort to streamline it for bigger > user participation. > You can improve that by either switching audio/video streaming software - either using zoom/bluejeans/hangouts/... via round robin or providing streaming for few services (at once - say, people could chose bet. chime and zoom). I am able to find sponsors for commercial accounts for such software - as also as for covering the costs of the hardware setup (within the MXNet hours hosting location, to stream audio/video online). So those options would be added to what AWS would support. > Also, we are looking to add small reference to User Groups meetings into > Apache MXNet documentation to bring user awareness up. > I am running a user group's page on Facebook and could share something on meetup.com. I could assist.
