Our Start Out Zoom Distsys Reading Grouping Meeting
We did our offset Zoom DistSys reading grouping coming together on Apr 1st, Midweek 15:30 EST. We discussed the Gryff paper.
I didn't own got much Zoom experience, together with this was really experimental reaching out to the basis at large to run a reading grouping amongst whomever is interested.
xx people attended. As I was introducing the format, ane somebody starting writing chat messages, maxim "this is together with hence boring", etc. He had connected amongst a phone, together with the video was showing him walking likely inwards a market. This should own got been a ruby flag. The coming together participants asked me to take him, because he was pinging them together with bothering them equally well. That was our troll.
I had taken measures to halt zoom-bombing, since I had heard this was an issue.
The coming together took ninety minutes. The presentation from the slides was for thirty minutes. The full general tidings was 25 minutes, together with nosotros used 25 minutes for the breakout rooms for focused deeper tidings on selected questions. And nosotros had a 10 minutes of roll upwardly at the end, where nosotros summarized tidings from the breakout sessions.
This coming together was the offset fourth dimension I used the breakout room session. I was non certain how good the breakout rooms would work, but it turned out great. I used automatic assigning of participants to the room together with mentioned that I would switch users betwixt rooms if requested. We had three breakout rooms, together with to a greater extent than or less five people per room. This enabled us to run into each other inwards the breakout rooms, together with nosotros had a to a greater extent than relaxed together with productive conversation. One participant inwards my breakout room had joined from Republic of Republic of India (2:30 am local time) together with some other had joined from Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany (11:30 pm local time). It was overnice coming together together with discussing amongst people passionate almost distributed systems to a greater extent than or less the globe.
In the roll upwardly later on the breakouts, I performed a poll together with learned that 90% of the participants has read the newspaper earlier the meeting. This improved the character of the discussion. It is non slow to sympathise a newspaper merely yesteryear watching a 25 infinitesimal presentation.
Here are the documents for offline viewing. But you lot had to last there; at that topographic point is a large payoff for alive participation.
On the whole, the Zoom coming together went improve than I expected. After nosotros acquire to a greater extent than sense amongst the mechanics of Zoom, I intend things volition run better.
I am at in ane lawsuit hopeful that nosotros tin brand this coming together sustainable. I promise nosotros volition last able to acquire plenty volunteers for presenting papers. The newspaper presentation is exclusively for 20-30 minutes, because nosotros assume participants read the newspaper earlier the presentation. Volunteering to last a presenter is a proficient commitment to brand for learning to a greater extent than almost a specific paper/topic. We enquire the presenter to give us a summary 4-5 days earlier the presentation. This gives plenty fourth dimension for others to acquire a caput commence for preparing for the discussion.
Here are the adjacent papers, nosotros volition beak over inwards the upcoming meetings:
I didn't own got much Zoom experience, together with this was really experimental reaching out to the basis at large to run a reading grouping amongst whomever is interested.
xx people attended. As I was introducing the format, ane somebody starting writing chat messages, maxim "this is together with hence boring", etc. He had connected amongst a phone, together with the video was showing him walking likely inwards a market. This should own got been a ruby flag. The coming together participants asked me to take him, because he was pinging them together with bothering them equally well. That was our troll.
I had taken measures to halt zoom-bombing, since I had heard this was an issue.
- Only the hosts together with cohosts could portion screen.
- I made 2 co-hosts to assistance amongst moderation.
- I had selected the alternative to disallow joining later on removal.
The coming together took ninety minutes. The presentation from the slides was for thirty minutes. The full general tidings was 25 minutes, together with nosotros used 25 minutes for the breakout rooms for focused deeper tidings on selected questions. And nosotros had a 10 minutes of roll upwardly at the end, where nosotros summarized tidings from the breakout sessions.
This coming together was the offset fourth dimension I used the breakout room session. I was non certain how good the breakout rooms would work, but it turned out great. I used automatic assigning of participants to the room together with mentioned that I would switch users betwixt rooms if requested. We had three breakout rooms, together with to a greater extent than or less five people per room. This enabled us to run into each other inwards the breakout rooms, together with nosotros had a to a greater extent than relaxed together with productive conversation. One participant inwards my breakout room had joined from Republic of Republic of India (2:30 am local time) together with some other had joined from Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany (11:30 pm local time). It was overnice coming together together with discussing amongst people passionate almost distributed systems to a greater extent than or less the globe.
In the roll upwardly later on the breakouts, I performed a poll together with learned that 90% of the participants has read the newspaper earlier the meeting. This improved the character of the discussion. It is non slow to sympathise a newspaper merely yesteryear watching a 25 infinitesimal presentation.
Here are the documents for offline viewing. But you lot had to last there; at that topographic point is a large payoff for alive participation.
- We used the Google Doc for questions together with breakout room discussion, together with it worked fine.
- Below is the coming together video. I forgot to commence tape on Zoom, together with hence the video starts halfway inwards to the slides. (Going forward, I laid upwardly the alternative to commence recording automatically.)
On the whole, the Zoom coming together went improve than I expected. After nosotros acquire to a greater extent than sense amongst the mechanics of Zoom, I intend things volition run better.
I am at in ane lawsuit hopeful that nosotros tin brand this coming together sustainable. I promise nosotros volition last able to acquire plenty volunteers for presenting papers. The newspaper presentation is exclusively for 20-30 minutes, because nosotros assume participants read the newspaper earlier the presentation. Volunteering to last a presenter is a proficient commitment to brand for learning to a greater extent than almost a specific paper/topic. We enquire the presenter to give us a summary 4-5 days earlier the presentation. This gives plenty fourth dimension for others to acquire a caput commence for preparing for the discussion.
Here are the adjacent papers, nosotros volition beak over inwards the upcoming meetings:
- Wormspace: A modular foundation for simple, verifiable distributed systems (SOCC'19)
- Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System (NSDI'20)
- Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration together with Total Order inwards a Scalable Shared Log (NSDI'20)
- Unifying consensus together with atomic commit (VLDB19)
- Stable together with consistent membership at scale amongst rapid (ATC18)
- Mergeable Replicated Data Types (OOPSLA'19)
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