Survey for most suitable time for GSoC Office Hours

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While we wait for Jenkins’ acceptance to GSoC 2023, we wanted to start planning for the next phase of the program and especially the office hours . These online meetings will be held weekly to discuss the project ideas. clarify any doubts, and answer questions. They generally last for 30 minutes. Mentors are present at these meetings. Note that these sessions will be recorded.

The first two Office Hours will be a systematic presentation of every project idea (10 minutes + 5 min Q&A) and will last one hour.

Experience has shown that this interactive format is very efficient. The drawback is the difficulty to find a timing that works in the majority of time zones and with everyone’s agenda.

Traditionally, we have held the Office Hours on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. This is

  • 9:30 pm in India
  • midnight in China
  • 17h00 in Europe
  • 11:00 am on the US East Coast
  • 08:00 am on the US west Coast

Note that these Office Hours don’t replace the other communication channels.

The purpose of this form is to find consensus on the day and time for the weekly office hours.

Find the Google Form here Jenkins in GSoC 2023 - Office Hours

/- Jmm
Jean-Marc Meessen
for the Jenkins GSoC Org Admin team

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The results of the poll are out:

a majority (91%) shared that the traditional and proposed Office Hours time works for them.

We will thus hold the weekly meeting, on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC (from February 23). This is

  • 9:30 pm in India
  • midnight in China
  • 17h00 in Europe
  • 11:00 am on the US East Coast
  • 08:00 am on the US west Coast

The Jenkins calendar will be updated shortly and the Zoom link will be shared.

/- Jmm

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