New Date and Schedule for Developer Calls!

[slagle (Tim Slagle)]

The wait is over. We tallied the results (OK discourse tallied them…) and it was a close call between Wednesday at 2 PM and Wednesday at 5 PM. (4 person difference in the top two results)

We have decided to hold the calls at 2 PM every 2nd Wednesday of the Month. The new format will be more informative and educational in nature and we will continue to post them on YouTube. Please let us know if you have any questions. We are excited to see you on the next Dev Call!

To copy this event to your calendar click here.

[blebson (Ben Lebson)]

So much for actually having a [9 to 5] job and attending calls

[chevyman142000 (Jeff DeWolfe)]

Where was the voting on this? I didn’t see a thread or anything on the Slack channel about it. Also, why are we not updating the existing calendar? Your link gives a 400 error.

[slagle (Tim Slagle)]

@chevyman142000

Also, why are we not updating the existing calendar? Your link gives a 400 error.

The existing calendar is updated.

Calendar can be found here.

@chevyman142000

Where was the voting on this?

Announcement: Changes to Developer Discussion

During the last few months we have expanded the ways that developers can contact @jody.albritton, @jim, @unixbeast, and myself. This has allowed conversations to happen in real time instead of needing to wait for our bi-weekly developer discussions. Because of this we would like to repurpose the developer calls to be more educational in nature. In order to revamp the developer call and provide time for us to develop education content we will be decreasing the frequency of the developer call to monthly instead of bi-weekly. We will continue to remain and increase our presence on the community and encourage you to do so as well. We would like to provide educational content every call with a SmartThings expert and follow that up with an optional Q&A. The Q&A portion will be used to answer …

[krlaframboise (Kevin)]

@slagle

We have decided to hold the calls at 2 PM every 2nd Wednesday of the Month.

5pm had 12% more votes on Wednesday and a total of 10% more votes across all days so what was the point of asking us to vote…

[Fuzzyligic (Stuart Buchanan)]

@slagle

We have decided to hold the calls at 2 PM every 2nd Wednesday of the Month. The new format will be more informative and educational in nature and we will continue to post them on YouTube. Please let us know if you have any questions. We are excited to see you on the next Dev Call!

but its not just about you guys in the US, being 2pm makes the dev calls far more accessible to us in Europe

[krlaframboise (Kevin)]

@Fuzzyligic

but its not just about you guys in the US, being 2pm makes the dev calls far more accessible to us in Europe

My point was that if they’re going to let us vote on the time, they need to use the time that won the vote, otherwise what was the point of voting.

I’m curious to know if they’ve had a noticeable decline in attendance since they changed the time to 2pm

[Fuzzyligic (Stuart Buchanan)]

but a 12% lead isn’t a particularly overwhelming result to keep it at 5pm i think what it shows that if ST wanted to change it to 2pm (why not it brings it into their work day which will mean it will be easier to engage developers and others within the ST company to join the Dev calls.) but by doing the vote in the first place they did a bit of market research to make sure they weren’t gonna pee off an overwhelming number of users wanting to keep it at 5pm.

disclaimer… any views expressed in this post are entirely my own and are not made to cause offence, however it could also be the case that my views expressed in this post can be total and utter b0110cks.

[krlaframboise (Kevin)]

@Fuzzyligic

but a 12% lead isn’t a particularly overwhelming result to keep it at 5pm i think what it shows that if ST wanted to change it to 2pm (why not it brings it into their work day which will mean it will be easier to engage developers and others within the ST company to join the Dev calls.) but by doing the vote in the first place they did a bit of market research to make sure they weren’t gonna pee off an overwhelming number of users wanting to keep it at 5pm.

I’d normally consider 12% a lot, but with the low number of votes you’re right. You’re probably also right about the reason behind the vote, I never though of it that way.