Format: a synchronous remote meeting (voice with optional video), backed by a collaborative pad to record questions, take notes, share links etc.
Topic: anything related to the development of the OCaml compiler, that is, the github/ocaml/ocaml project. (All topics and questions are welcome, at all levels of knowledge and familiarity with the compiler.)
Duration: probably one to two hours, but the idea of “office hours” is that people can of course join late and leave at any time.
Picking a good time for this is difficult as the OCaml community lives across all timezones.
I am including below a poll to ask which time slots would be possible / comfortable for prospective attendants. (As the organizer, I pre-selected slots that are comfortable for me.)
Please only answer the poll if you are motivated to attend such a meeting (the preferences may different from the general timezone of the OCaml community).
7:00 – 8:00 (UTC)
8:00 – 9:00 (UTC)
9:00 – 10:00 (UTC)
11:00 – 12:00 (UTC)
12:00 – 13:00 (UTC)
13:00 – 14:00 (UTC)
14:00 – 15:00 (UTC)
15:00 – 16:00 (UTC)
0voters
(If we do this several time we will of course think of a rotation to accomodate people from different timezones.)
My question is not when people are available on a specific day, but which times on weekday are generally comfortable for them to spend time doing OCaml stuff. (Maybe they can do this at work, in which case I would expect them to indicate reasonable working hours for them; or at home in the evening (but not too late), and they indicate this time period, etc.)
I will later send a poll to pick a specific day, but the UI would be crap if I proposed 8 or even 3 different choices per day, so I prefer to narrow the options first.
I procrastinated a bit on sending a poll to pick a date, apologies!
Given the time results above, I think that the optimal 2-hour time window is 11:00-12:30 UTC. (I cut it to one hour and a half, instead of two hours, to avoid exhaustion. Of course people are free to enter and leave at any time.).
Here is a poll to pick a day (not next week, but the week after).
Monday October 6th
Tuesday October 7th
Wednesday October 8th
Thursday October 9th
Friday October 10th
0voters
P.S.: I haven’t found a way to express “(If need be)” with Discuss polls, so when voting myself I just unselected the less-convenient options, but I am of course happy to make time to participate on all those days.
I am planning to join audio-only to save bandwidth, but people are free to do as they prefer.
A reminder on the format, topic:
Format: a synchronous remote meeting (voice with optional video), backed by a collaborative pad to record questions, take notes, share links etc. People can join and leave at any time during the office hours.
Topic: anything related to the development of the OCaml compiler, that is, the github/ocaml/ocaml project. (All topics and questions are welcome, at all levels of knowledge and familiarity with the compiler.)
Just a short reminder that the office hours will take place tomorrow (in approximately 25h30mn: Friday October 10th 2025, UTC 11:00-12:30). There is a collaborative pad which you can use to write questions/topics to be discussed during the office hours. No questions/topics have been proposed yet, feel free to add some!
(I think that we will prioritize the questions/topics for which someone is available online to present them – the pad is not a substitute for attendance – but seeing other people’s questions/topics can be inspiring.)
Side note also for future meetings, but the platform is entirely in french with no option to translate it. This might not feel welcoming to non-french people (I wish english wasn’t the defacto language, but it unfortunately is at the moment…).
(I picked a different time slot from the current one, that also looks reasonable given previous poll results. If extra people would like to join, please feel free to participate to the time-slot poll in the first post so that I can tell when are good meeting times.)
@giltho thanks for noticing the language issue on the online-meeting service I proposed; this is a new issue that looks like it comes from a version upgrade, it of course had a fine English interface when I adopted the service. Let’s keep jitsi.meet for now.
Hey Were there any notes / minutes taken during the meeting? I was unfortunately unable to attend but would be interested in what was discussed. I checked the collaborative pad, though it seems empty.
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Were there any notes / minutes taken during the meeting? I was unfortunately unable to attend but would be interested in what was discussed. I checked the collaborative pad, though it seems empty.