Just in case you have not seen it through our Community calendar or Social networks, we have our first Q&A session taking place tomorrow.
Details available https://community.progress.com/c/e/33.aspx...
You can also download events invites so you are able to add these in your calendars...
Just tried dialling in and getting an invalid meeting ID, same as Tuesday. Could just be I'm jumping the gun, but thought I'd flag it up.
It is working ok now.
Can you try now?
Jean - I missed this session, can you please share the recorded webex session link?
Many thanks
Kandavel
Thread created by Jean RichertJust in case you have not seen it through our Community calendar or Social networks, we have our first Q&A session taking place tomorrow.
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I'm sure he will, but I think he said it would be next week.
Reply by Thomas Mercer-HurshI'm sure he will, but I think he said it would be next week.
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Great... Thanks
[collapse]Reply by Jean RichertI'll try to post it tomorrow... shouldn't take so long...
Sent from my iPadReply by Thomas Mercer-HurshI'm sure he will, but I think he said it would be next week.
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I'm not totally clear on the intended scope for these Q&As. I thought it was, in this case, Q&A about the language/tools as they are today. What I heard was a mix of questions about the current product, info exchange-style requests for future enhancements (which is development-related but not the type of Q&A I expected), and feedback on the Community site (which is not development-related at all). It was a somewhat similar experience in the recent DB Q&A as well.
Jean/Peter/Brian, can you please clarify what you expect in these sessions? Thanks!
I'm not totally clear on the intended scope for these Q&As. I thought it was, in this case, Q&A about the language/tools as they are today. What I heard was a mix of questions about the current product, info exchange-style requests for future enhancements (which is development-related but not the type of Q&A I expected), and feedback on the Community site (which is not development-related at all). It was a somewhat similar experience in the recent DB Q&A as well.
Jean/Peter/Brian, can you please clarify what you expect in these sessions? Thanks!
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Actually I was being lazy; I meant to say "language & tools"; I wasn't trying to separate them.
I think inevitably when you open the "floor" for questions there's a chance to go off into the weeds. So while it may not please some people it's probably good to gently enforce some amount of discipline about scope in these webinars. Assuming that happens, once we do a few of these sessions people will come to understand what to expect and it should become easier keep the conversation on point.
Jean is planning a separate Q&A for Community so I think that's the place to deal with ideas about Ideas, site improvements, etc. And we get "the road ahead" info in quarterly updates and conference keynotes and info exchanges (which are typically made available after the fact to non-attendees).
So I would like to see dev Q&A and DB Q&A sessions focused on people's experiences with the products they run today. Within that scope there's still a lot to talk about: limitations, bugs, how-tos, best practices, worst practices, lessons learned, propeller-head internals, third-party integration patterns, etc. Inevitably you'll also hear some amount of "I hate feature X", "feature Y is borked", "we need feature Z", etc., and the moderators can funnel that stuff through to PM-land after the fact. Or the PMs can just watch the recordings after the fact. :)
I guess as you guys say, it's up to the moderator (sorry Jean!) to filter questions that don't meet the scope of the session.
I do think however that things could maybe be handled a little more cleverly in advance. One of the issues on the DBA session was that there weren't many people, and even less questions. Now this may be partly because of the scope thing - people were unsure, but it could also be because people were caught a little cold. As a result the scope was widened by the team to try and stimulate discussions. That's great. Then in the Development session the questions were slow to start, and I suspect people started to worry that it would be another quiet session again.
Maybe there should be the opportunity for folks to submit some questions a day or so in advance so that there is a list of questions to be getting on with answering right from the start of the session to avoid awkward silences. It might also stimulate folks to actually think about what they want to ask in advance.
Hi all,
These online Q&A sessions were also my first ones and let me tell you I very much appreciate all your constructive feedback and input that I'll definitely take into account for the next round. Points I noted from this thread are:
As you may have seen through the Community Calendar, we are planning to run different types of online sessions:
Later on, I'd like also to run case studies and, it would be great to have our Community members also contributing through online presentation where they could share with other members some cool tools they have designed using our products.
That all sounds very promising, Jean.
I think the Q&A sessions are a great idea and also agree that it needs to be clearer on what everyone is expecting to achieve out of those.
I took a OE Development Q&A as a chance to ask questions about OE Development in general. The main things being what I can and can't do, and if there any plans for features that help me do the things I can't.
If the Q&A is meant as more of a technical session such as I have this problem, whats a workaround or best practice etc then thats fab as well.
I look forward to the other sessions that are planned especially the Product Roadmap