# Creating a community docs meeting

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374>\
**Category:** Forum Guide & Feedback\
**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374 "2023-08-21T14:47:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374/1 "2023-08-21T14:47:25Z")

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**(Moderators note: this was split from [Documentation Working Group Agenda](http://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-working-group-agenda/153) in order to keep that topic a bit cleaner. It’s preserved here in case it’s useful)**

Two questions -  
1 - is this the right place to post meeting agendas?  
2 - Should we create a new topic for every meeting, or make this a wiki and update it before each meeting?

The benefit of a wiki is that anyone can add to the agenda.

The goal is to stop posting to [DaWGs (Documentation Working Group) Meeting Agenda 2023 · Issue #678 · ansible/community · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/community/issues/678) when the forum soft-launches soon. @oranod @acozine @gotmax23 @felixfontein @gwmngilfen - what do y’all think?

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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374/2 "2023-08-21T15:34:27Z")

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In general I think “yes”, this is the right place. The alternative would be in #Workflows & Logs I guess, but that feels a bit hidden.

We have some options in terms of workflow:

- We can have a topic-level calendar showing when the next meeting it. I’ve added one to test 😛. I believe it can handle recurrance but I haven’t tried it yet.
- We can use wiki posts for agendas, I think that makes sense
  - Either keeping the top post up to date for the _next_ meeting, or posting a new agenda, either works I think.

- We _could_ delete replies on the topic after a meeting, but that feels quite harsh
- We could split replies to a new topic (useful if a significant discussion develops on a topic)

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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374/3 "2023-08-21T20:33:15Z")

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another option is to just add it to the Events calendar. I tried and failed so not sure if I don’t have event creator rights?

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**Author:** ![samccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/samccann/32/18_2.png) [@samccann](https://forum.ansible.com/u/samccann)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374/4 "2023-08-21T20:51:54Z")

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@gwmngilfen - I now see a big-ol calendar at the top of the project discussions category. Is this because of adding the calendar to this topic? I don’t actually see any events in the calendar tho so… maybe it’s unrelated?

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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/creating-a-community-docs-meeting/374/5 "2023-08-22T08:36:39Z")

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> [@samccann](#):
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> another option is to just add it to the Events calendar. I tried and failed so not sure if I don’t have event creator rights?

You have rights, but things have to be posted in #Events to get on the Events calendar. I think regular meetings belong here rather than on the conference/meetup calendar, but perhaps @cybette has opinions there? My gut feeling is that we could have quite a lot of these which would clutter the #Events calendar - using perhaps a `meeting` tag would be enough discoverability for those wanting to dig deeper?

> [@Documentation Working Group Agenda](https://forum.ansible.com/t/documentation-working-group-agenda/153/5):
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> I now see a big-ol calendar at the top of the project discussions category

Right, that’s the config option that is enabled for #Events, and I switched it on here while trying to set this topic up. I’ve removed it (as I said above, I’m not sure we want that here), and the in-topic calendar here is still present 🎉

The in-topic event usage here goes like this:

1. Use `[calendar][/calendar]` in the first post to enable the calendar
2. Use `[date-range]` in later posts to add an event to the calendar in post 1

You can use use the date-builder to help:  
 ![2023-08-22-093736_442x45_scrot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/c89fc1768b981d3cd3bd6470c21f67d4e9e11267.png)

which also has an Advanced Mode for things like recurrance:

 ![2023-08-22-093830_564x170_scrot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/6798d16eab07c0ab62906a6b201235c9a104bd12.png)
