Kia ora koutou! Hello all!
For quite a while now (about a year) we have been holding unofficial informal community meetings over on the MetaBrainz Discord, after the dev meetings.
The meetings have been very enjoyable, with a modest range of maybe 3-10 attendees (depending on the weather, or something) hanging out for an hour of sharing what they’ve been working on or editing, and talking nerd and music guff. It’s a mix of people in the text chat, on voice chat, and a couple on video or sharing their screens - any level of interaction is welcome.
And before you pick up the pitchfork, please - we are aware that Discord is a walled garden. It was simply the easiest way to see if there is community interest in a meeting where video and voice chat is possible. If anyone wants to suggest (or even better, host) a better and more open (e.g. not Zoom) meeting setup where people can easily join a video chat, that’s certainly the next step.
Anyway, this thread is mainly to invite you to the community meeting! If we get more attendees, or interest, then we can also more seriously look at changing platforms (no point setting up something fancy to host empty meetings).
The community meeting is every Monday, currently three hours after the dev meeting. Enter your location [here] to check your local meeting time.
Timing can be changed if a majority of attendees prefer a different time, but please note that this time was already frankensteined around a few schedules.