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FX-Team is an awesome group of people who enjoy each other
These things are truths:
- we like to know what others are doing, as well as staying in general sync with
the overall efforts of the company.
- There are often questions, follow ups, or clarifications that merit discussion
- We undertake, as regularly as possible, to meet every monday at 12:10PST/PDT
That meeting should have these characteristics:
- it should be excellent
- it should be informative, and on topics that the teams have an interest in
- it should give us a chance to meet new folks, and recognize each other for excellent work
About a month ago, we decided it should not have these characteristics:
- run by johnath and only run when johnath is available
- be, in any way, about what johnath wants to talk about, except possibly as an agendum
To enable this, we elect a Meeting Master to run the meeting, this should create the following characteristics:
- this is mostly fun, or at least no great inconvenience
- this spreads visibility throughout the team and makes people remember that person over there
that they don't talk to much day to day, but basically think is awesome
- this retains the generally easy going nature of the team
To that end:
- while I understand the request for structure, (johnath) does not want to add it.
- meeting master is a title that is new, so it may evolve, but in any case I think it's mostly a field designation that, while it has generally positive career and visibility traits, is mostly just a team of people sharing the load
- I earnestly believe that the quietness so far on the topic is shyness and uncertainty, because I know the team is full of awesome people who would lay down in traffic for one another, much less take a meeting bullet for them
- if someone gets saddled with the title and doesn't want it, it should be easy enough to fob off on someone via, e.g., an fx-team@ email
- but at the end of the day, I expect (very nearly demand) that the lack of structure, or at
least it's whimsically fluid style, persist