Social chats meetings

@gabor The calendar event is at 11pm UTC of Thursday. I guess it needs to be shifted 12 h forwards.

@josh (as firefighter 1 for Bebop): will there be a social chat or event arranged by Bebop?

If we use it for all-team meetings (as opposed to just 1 cell) all cells need to synchronize, to avoid scheduling the usual chats.
We can decide in advance when do we want to use this ChatRoulette.

Do we want to do an all-team ChatRoulette next sprint 244, instead of social chats?

Next all-team ChatRoulette event
  • Next all-team ChatRoulette in 244 (week of 5th April)
  • Next all-team ChatRoulette in 245 (week of 19th April)
  • Next all-team ChatRoulette in 246 (week of 3rd May)
  • Later
  • Let each cell do and schedule cell-specific ChatRoulette chats (not all-team) at any time, in addition to the usual social chats in the same sprint

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Thank you @daniel for noticing it! Accidentally I set it to 12am instead of 12pm. Should be fixed now.

@josh (as firefighter 1 for Bebop): will there be a social chat or event arranged by Bebop?

@daniel I misunderstood the description on the Monday.com checklist and thought I’d been wrongly assigned.

I know we generally do these on the first week of sprint, as the 2nd week can get hectic for many, but are there any objections to having the Bebop social chat next Monday, March 29th instead? I propose 17:00 UTC.

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Since there are no objections yet I scheduled the Bebop Social chat for Monday March 29th, 17:00 UTC.

Ticket: BB-3997

Topics: Favorite minor or yet to be explored hobbies.
My personal examples: lockpicking, mushroom foraging, guitar effect building

@team Based on the poll, next sprint (244) we’ll do an all-team chat with ChatRoulette. Free topic. https://opencraft.com/chat-roulette/

I created tasks to log the time (max. 30 minutes). Use the one for you cell: SE-4308, BB-4040, FAL-1797 (MNG and BIZ members, just choose one of those 3, or create your own).

At which time should we do it? The last one was at 2 PM UTC. We can choose different times, to rotate through time zones. How would it be 5 hours later, i.e. at 7 PM UTC? (that’s night in Europe)
That would be Wednesday 14th, 19:00 UTC.

Any other suggestions for time?

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I invited everyone to the ChatRoulette calendar event (14th April, that’s Wednesday in 2nd week). You can join even if I missed your e-mail, e.g. if this is your first sprint.

If anybody has concerns about the chosen time, please raise them synchronously too, e.g. here, since the forum has a response time of 2 weeks.

To schedule such events in the future, the future firefighters can do a poll in advance to ask for the preferred meeting times. I personally find it’s too much coordination work, for such a short meeting. In addition if we always choose the time that works best for most, some people will always be left out. Therefore I arbitrarily chose last_time+5h, to rotate it; we could just do that each time to have events all around the clock.

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Hello everyone,

The Falcon social chat will take place tomorrow, Apr 29th at 7:00 UTC (sorry for the short notice).

The topic is: What do you do to relax yourself/forget about work?

Ticket: FAL-1880

By the way, according to the handbook, social chats are supposed to be organized during the first week of the sprint, but the task for FF to set up a social chat meeting is currently under Week 2 in monday.com. Which one is correct/which one needs to be updated?

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@mtyaka Haha, they are both correct actually. The social chat should be in the first week of the sprint but it should be setup+scheduled in the second week of the previous sprint (or at least that is how I understood it). :stuck_out_tongue:

That makes sense, but then monday.com should remind you about that one sprint before you are FFa.

@gabor (I’m not sure if you’re the right person to ping, but I think you’ve been working with monday.com recently): Can we change monday.com integration so that the “Organizing the social chat videocall” task gets added to the board of the person who is FFa one sprint before they are the firefighter? Social chat is supposed to be hosted during the first week of the sprint by that week’s FF, but it should be organized during the last week of the previous sprint.

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So, to make it abundantly clear: I am FFa on SE.245. I should be organizing Serenity’s social chat now, on the second week, for it to happen on the first week of SE.246. Correct?

According to the handbook, the meeting should have happened during the first week of SE.245 (current sprint): “the firefighter for the first week of a sprint posts a topic of their choice and a time (during that same first week of the sprint).”

So you should have organized the meeting during SE.244, for it to happen during first week of SE.245.

That’s how we used to do it when using the old checklist. The checklist on monday.com is currently wrong, which is why you and I both didn’t realize we should have organized the meeting in SE.244.

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Alright, then, so here goes a late one as well. :man_shrugging:

So @team, Serenity’s SE.245 social chat will be tomorrow, Fri April 30th at 14:00 UTC.

Topic: What was your first computer, how did you get it, and what was your favorite thing to do with it?

Ticket: SE-4400

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@team Falcon’s social chat for Sprint 246 will be Wednesday, 12 May 2021 at 07:30 UTC.

Topic will be:

What’s your favorite thing to cook (or to have cooked for you)?
:shallow_pan_of_food: :pizza: :burrito: :stuffed_flatbread: :falafel: :fried_egg: :bowl_with_spoon: :green_salad: :lobster: :sushi: :pie: :cookie: :birthday: :doughnut: :hamburger: :pretzel:

Everyone is welcome :smiley:

Ticket: FAL-1899

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I think it is possible, but that will require Sprints app changes too. Generally, Sprints should send that who will be FFa next time (with like an FF-1-next role or something similar). Then the integration could do this. @nizar What do you think about this?

There’s a plan to do that @gabor, specifically so that we can add an item that asks the firefighter to make sure they added themselves to the ops genie rotation. However, we don’t have much capacity for this work at the moment in Serenity.

The epic should be passed onto a different cell, but no one really is able to pick it up at the moment either :disappointed:

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@kshitij, @nizar Can you organize the social chats for Bebop and Serenity?

@team Bebops’ social chat for Sprint 246 will be at 11AM UTC on 12th May 2021

The topic is:
What is some media (TV shows, Movies, Books etc.) you’ve consumed recently? Did you like it, would you recommend it?

Ticket: BB-4185

@team Serenity’s social chat for sprint 247 will be on Fri May 21st at 3pm UTC.

The topic is:

What was your last vacation? Where did you go and what were some fun things that you did there? :mountain: :train: :city_sunset: :flight_departure: :beach_umbrella:

Ticket: SE-4462

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Hi @tikr
There is a typo in the date it should be 21st :slight_smile: