Various Ideas and Suggestions

  • Wall page for go-to-dinner groups. Take new people. Suggest reservations.

  • 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