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For week one of a WordPress Book Club, we will be discussing the Preface and Chapter 1. Introduction.
To start the club, we are going to do introductions. I’ll ask everyone to share their name and how long they have been involved in open source. We’ll do this popcorn style.
Next I’ll quickly review some norms for this club:
- Make Space for each other — Be conscious of how much you are speaking and encourage others to speak as well. While cooperative overlapping is a conversation style that is natural to some, it’s one we should avoid in this context.
- Approach this club with enthusiastic collaboration — This is a phrase that I stole from the preface and is one of the ways that the author describes the unique culture of open source. In this context the phrase means to me that everyone is coming with a positive attitude and a desire to share and learn. We will all assume good intent since everyone is approaching this with good intent.
- Camera On by default, no questions asked if camera is off — It’s easier and more engaging if we can see each other, so I want to encourage you to have your camera on, but there are also a multitude of reasons that you may want it off. You don’t need to explain why your camera is off, but if you can, please turn it on.
After that we will get to the meat of the session, and discuss these two sections. I’ll bring a few questions to help get the discussion flowing, but I would also love if folks brought their own as well. Since the majority of participants don’t work in open source day in and day out, I expect some questions to be about ways to apply our learnings outside open source.
Finally, I am going to encourage everyone to spend some time blogging their thoughts after the discussion. This can be a reaction to something you read or something discussed. It can be notes you took while reading, but I would like to encourage blogging.
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