2019 05 09 Committee Meeting

Ruby New Zealand Incorporated

2019-05-09 Committee Meeting - Minutes

2019-05-09 7.15pm - 8.15pm

Present:

• Merrin
• Steve
• Rebecca
• Pete
• Mathew
• Laura
• Andrew (at 7:36pm)

Apologies:

• Anthony

Opened: 7:26pm

• Strategy subcommittee report back

  • There was a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) exercise
  • From that, a strategic vision was created (document is here)
  • Should we share either/both with the community?

• Vote to share strategic vision: Passed unanimously (Andrew absent)

• Vote to share SWOT with disclaimer about its origins and not seeking feedback on it: All yes except Matt, who abstained (Andrew absent)

• Confirming changing the mandatory Slack channel to #announcements

  • Discussion about how this will work
  • Merrin assigned to own this - needs to be a workspace owner

• Kiwi Ruby update

  • Just had a meeting - have some new designs - refreshed branding
  • Next steps: final sponsorship prospectus integrating new design, send out to companies
  • Date is set at [SPOILERS!?] - contract has been signed

• Community subcommittee report back

  • Met on Thu, 2 May 2019 – went through project board (on GitHub), prioritised and discussed agenda
  • Planning to release the 2019 community survey findings
  • Community strategy is to start high level: define “the Ruby NZ community” and clarify the community values, use this as a standard for making decisions that affect the community going forward
  • Had some discussion about problematic past behaviour in the community
  • Would like to clarify scope of Community Subcommittee
    • Original definition captured by the first meeting was “The subcommittee's role is to review the CoC, and investigate and improve online community and moderation”
    • Does this mean the Community Subcommittee owns anything that will “improve online community”? If so, some Issues may need to be shuffled around
      • Punt until we have a definition of the community
  • Proposal to set up a list of Twitter Ruby on the @RubyNewZealand account
    • Benefits: conversations outside of Slack, Twitter has been a good source of community
    • Important to be opt-in - not everyone would want their account to be part of the list
    • Maybe a low-touch way to sign people up into the list
    • Discussion about moderation - we can’t moderate what people say but what if people are really terrible? We should have a stance on this, be prepared for that eventuality should it occur, and decide whether to do this based on weighing up the potential harm against the positive risks. We also want to avoid any sign of that linking to Twitter accounts counts as an endorsement

Closed: 8:09pm