[Users] Format change for the weekly Zeta Alliance calls

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On 07/09/2026 23:10, Randy Leiker wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I wanted to share the news of a format change for the weekly Zeta 
> Alliance calls.  As you may already know, we meet weekly ( 
> https://zetalliance.org/contact/ ), every Tuesday throughout the year 
> to discuss a range of agenda-driven topics related to Zimbra.  Agenda 
> items ( https://nextcloud.zetalliance.org/index.php/s/q7xK4if6zxaBAiR 
> ) are sometimes prepared in advance by call participants, or added to 
> the agenda during a call.  Most agenda items tend to be Zimbra 
> operational issues that participants are experiencing & seeking group 
> feedback on, general commentary on Zimbra, current Zimbra security 
> concerns, and of course new or changing features in Zimbra as versions 
> are released.  Agenda items near always have an owner who leads the 
> discussion on their item.  Both myself and Mark Stone have been 
> volunteering for the last few years to co-host the weekly Zeta 
> Alliance calls, and we tend to average around 5-10 participants 
> presently per call with calls averaging in duration from 30 - 90 
> minutes.  Call participants tend to be Zimbra administrators operating 
> Zimbra in a service provider environment, for a private organization, 
> or personal use. We've had occasional drop-ins by Zimbra employees in 
> the past.
>
> The Zeta Alliance call participants have voted to experiment with a 
> format change suggested for the weekly calls.  We will be continuing 
> with our open call agendas focused on Zimbra as normal, where any call 
> participant may add agenda items for discussion during a given week, 
> but starting with this week's call (Tuesday, September 8, 2026), the 
> agenda will be followed by a pre-announced topic on the Zeta Alliance 
> mailing list and in the Community News section of the Zimbra Forums 
> (https://forums.zimbra.org/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=4abd8a77e7edc70a4795f6f70e8a714c 
> <https://forums.zimbra.org/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=4abd8a77e7edc70a4795f6f70e8a714c>). 
> Topics will be selected to solicit greater group participation by 
> adding more diversity of voices to the mix, in recognizing the highest 
> quality discussions occur when many viewpoints are present.  These 
> topics need not necessarily be only about Zimbra, but can be 
> sufficiently broad in scope to encompass any topic related to the 
> email industry.  We will be starting modestly by having a group 
> discussion of a new topic on every other week's call, and if 
> successful, eventually shift to weekly group topic discussions.  Our 
> intent is to record the discussion of a given week's topic and to post 
> it publicly so that anyone who could not attend the call has the 
> opportunity to listen in as a kind of mini-podcast format.  The 
> location for publicly posted recordings will be announced when 
> available.  However, as normal, there are no plans to record the 
> weekly discussion of agenda items, as call participants have voted 
> they prefer the current non-recorded format, so you must attend 
> in-person to listen in. :)
>
> Join us for this topic for the Tuesday, September 8, 2026 call:
>
> From electronic messaging's modest beginning in the 1970s on ARPANET, 
> later evolving in to the SMTP standard in the early 1980s, modern day 
> email has come a long ways.  Through commercialization of the Internet 
> in the 1990s, leading up to near ubiquitous global connectivity today, 
> email's ongoing evolution is far from complete.  What is the biggest 
> problem with email today that nobody is solving?
>
>
> Randy Leiker (randy at skywaynetworks.com )
> Skyway Networks, LLC
>
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