@beckfield said:
Has it been nearly a year since the last ‘quarterly’ roundtable?
We’ve pulled back on doing quarterly roundtables with the community (keeping separate ones for the Ninjas in tact) as we evaluate a better way to do it with the community. We didn’t see much value in getting people together to share current issues they face, which is something already discussed in the forums. Our original intention was to discuss big picture things more, though the discussions tended to lean toward discussing whatever issue the participants were experiencing at the time. We are looking into evolving the roundtables into something more useful: expert panels. We’re thinking on the lines of a group of volunteer community members who are given access to upcoming features early in development, where they have a chance to test and provide feedback using a structured rubric and come together in a roundtable to discuss. We’re still working out the details, but we think it could be a good approach to improve our ability to digest power user feedback at an earlier stage of development. I’ll be sharing more info about it as we get ready to launch it.
