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title: Team meeting 2022-04-14
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# Team meeting 2022-04-14

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## Agenda

- Speed friending
    - 11 interested so far
    - Should it be guided
        - Theme?
            - Recent projects, what have you been thinking about
            - Recent games
            - Something you learned recently
            - Most annoying mechanic you've seen recently
    - Event
        - Start in lobby
        - 10 mins per room
        - 3-4 people per room
    - Code of conduct
        - Making sure people are comfortable
        - Making sure nothing is excluding people
    - No pressure on organizers/coordinators to come out to events like this
    - Jobs of the mods
        - Where possible, split up
        - Try to talk to the quiter people
        - Introduce yourself to newcomers you haven't seen before
    - Presentation
        - CoC
        - What lamejam is up to
            - We're trying co-working channels
            - We're working on rebranding
                - Suggestions for the Discord
                - Suggestions for the brand
                - Suggestions for what we are
            - Showcasing what the community is up to
        - Theme
        - How to get involved
            - Stuff happening in Ottawa
            - Want to help with future events
        - Speed friending goals
            - Meet new people
                - Longer-term interactions
                - Call to action to message people and say hi
            - Running periodically
            - You can stick around in general afterwards
        - 
- IMD game showcase
    - Dynamics we saw
        - Channels for each team
        - Students showing off work
        - Games on itch
        - Teams all had themed pfps
    - What this can lead to
        - Showcase event?
        - Small amount of channels for this
        - Smaller channels for each presenter
            - Can make it less overbearing for people showing off their games
        - Demographic of games
            - Game jams
            - Student projects
            - Side projects
        - Advertising
            - Longer heads up
            - At the end of some (local?) event?
            - Can be for not fully fleshed out games
                - Maybe focus more on prototypes
            - Doesn't need to be for video games?
                - playingcards.io
            - "This is going to happen at the end of August"
                - Can build of summer projects, inspire people to try something
                - Can build off 4900
                - Non-download builds
                    - Web builds
                - Short-term carrot
                    - Early in the summer, maybe a speed friending has a theme of showing off what you've been doing
                    - Might work with an 8 hour game jam
                    - WIP events
                - "\<group name\> Summer of Games!"
                - In person?
        - Where has this worked before
            - LameJam playtest
- What do we want to look into for next time
    - "Summer of games"
    - Community name
        - Overhaul website
        - Get twitter going
        - Needs to be ready before next meeting
            - Chat in organizers chat
    - Announcements
        - Mental health jam
        - Discussion point
            - How can we have some periodic "newsletter?"
                - Blog?
                - Email?
                - Twitter?
    - How to outreach to local industry people
        - What is our carrot/motivation for community
    - Have some event that is streaming
        - Tech talk
        - Panel
- Code of Conduct
    - Email is setup
    - Discord bot in the future?