Various Ideas and Suggestions

  • Emphasize speaking style and making room for others; creating a safe space. Put at beginning of opening session.
  • Session about new people; those who have come before can only ask questions
  • Session on building trust in company products
  • Switching places after courses during the banquet
  • Quiet room w/ beanbag chairs
  • Encourage people to get houses west of 6th Street
  • Custom post-it notes for open-spaces sessions
  • “Rest recharge connect”
  • Shared note system, perhaps could even produce a kind of conference proceedings
  • Some kind of recording, along with an agreement and set of practices so we could livestream/podcast without the participants worrying about what they say. (mostly conditions for pausing or turning off the feed). Needs to be something that can be sent out without editing.
  • Responsive Organizations.
  • Try having an open morning one day and doing the sessions in the afternoons
  • Childcare page
  • Monday topic what’s on your mind right now, or as part of the opening session
  • Bad movie night
  • Inclusion story
  • Trello ahead of time to fill up Monday
  • Size 40-50
  • Reserved slots at the end of the week, for spontaneous sessions
  • Book the gift of fear
  • Structure of discussion, to get everyone involved
  • Hello from the magic tavern podcast
  • Trello as OS board
  • Mission to zyxx podcast
  • ModernAgile.com
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Radical candor
  • The Phoenix project
  • Particle.io
  • Code of conduct signed
  • Webpack raised money for open source
  • Loomio
  • Cloud 9
  • Screenhero remote pairing
  • Error handling models by Joe Duffy
  • Motepair for Atom
  • Development hell podcast by grumpy
  • “recruit a friend” reminder and channel
  • Leave a room in your rental house for a new person. Help with transportation.
  • A checklist for new people
  • Cartoon map of CB by Kate
  • Getting more people, more women. Talking directly to people that are good fits, tell them you are coming.
  • New people: do you perceive an in group, does it look hard to become part?
  • Continue posting on slack. Please publish session notes there or on the newsgroup for folks who couldn’t go or be here.
  • Thoughts, ideas for new features, how we can bring more people
  • Ways for remote people to participate