I think no matter what ends up being the topic having a good structure is going to help make it better. I really like the “raise your hand and you join the list and will get called on” setup we used last week. We need to experiment a bit on how to implement that for video.
As we figure out which purposes we want to serve we should remember that we can always split the meeting into two meetings (or three …) so that each one has a clear purpose.
From my side it started as a way to coordinate development, deployment, and financing of the tech behind Binder and JupyterHub. One goal is to open up a door for people to join that process.
Maybe with the revived all Jupyter community call we can have the welcoming and showing off community work happen in that call and have a second call to focus on the other things?