[teampractices] Offsite meetings

Sun Apr 5 09:09:20 UTC 2015

Not to beat a dead horse, but please never be tempted by the crazy idea of
organizing a very short offsite that has people flying transatlantic. I've
already been flown for work from France to LA and back to spend only 24
hours in LA. It was wasteful on so many levels.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> <quote name="Bryan Davis" date="2015-04-02" time="20:11:43 -0600">
> > Personally I think having an "offsite" in SF is not really an offsite
> > since the portion of the team that lives in/near SF will probably head
> > home at the end of the day instead of hanging out with the remoties
> > who are trapped in a hotel.
>
> This. It's not an offsite and doesn't follow best practices of having a
> team with remote members in it. It just continues the divide between
> "local" and "remote" when we have to remember: given there's a high
> percentage (what is it? 40%?) of engineers being remote from SF then *we
> are all remoties*.
>
> > Having folks be away from home for more
> > than 12 days can be a burden as well depending on their home
> > situation. The combination of these two things makes me personally
> > think that an offsite in conjunction with All-hands is the worst case
> > scenario.
>
> +1
>
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