# Writing and Future retreat
We are planning an in-person retreat to discuss and work on lesson development and CodeRefinery future plans.
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At this moment let us focus only on the when (which week). Later we figure out the where and how.
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## Retreat scheduling poll for 2024
- Please add your initials if you would like to participate.
- Travel will be covered by the project.
- If you would like to be there but only have time for 2 or 3 days, please also add your initials. We will try to make it work.
- Location: not sure yet but in the Nordics
| Week | Want to attend |
|:------------------:| --------------:|
| Jan 22 - 26 | RD, RB, MJ |
| Feb 5 - 9 | RD, RB, DI, MJ |
| Feb 12 - 16 | RB, DI, MJ |
| Feb 19 - 23 | RB, SR, MJ |
| Feb 26 - Mar 1 (a) | RB, SR, DI, MJ |
| Mar 4 - 8 (a) | RB, SR, DI, MJ |
| April or later | RB, SR, DI, MJ |
Remarks:
- a: possible workshop in Aarhus
- MJ: First two don't fit for SJ but that does not really prevent me from attending
## DRAFT – Retreat Venue poll
| City (near) | Venue | Want to go | Won't go |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------- |
| Tromso | [Skibotn field station](https://en.uit.no/infrastruktur/enhet?p_document_id=675269) | | |
| Tromso | [Viking cabins](https://www.vikingcabins.com/copy-of-amenities) | | |
| Tromso | [Haraldvollen](http://www.haraldvollen.no/) | | |
| Helsinki | [Kavalahti Scout Cottage](https://partiokampat.fi/kavalahti/), [photos](https://papa.kuvat.fi/kuvat/TOIMINTA/Partiok%C3%A4mp%C3%A4t/Kavalahti/), or similar | | |
## NEXT: Planning meeting xxxx-xx-xx
Next planning meeting scheduling poll
| Date | Can attend | If need be | Cannot attend |
|:----:| ----------:| ----------:| -------------:|
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## Possible topics / Writing
Lesson development
## Possible topics / Future
From RB / Zulip
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we have an excellent training coordinator (but good point about the cost of context switching)
we need person(s) really excited about community building
defragmentation might be an effective way to improve coordination
we will need to rethink the workshops. they are not the most important event in our calendars and for our managers and i can feel it
big help would be helping to make gitlab sustainable. it is hugely successful but no organization is interested in the maintenance part and now the service sticks to me and gives me bad sleep when thinking how i will give users the bad news when money stops or i am out of energy
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## Archive meeting notes
> Note: I started a "destructive" cherry-picking of meeting notes to get relevant stuff in places above and avoid duplicate info and a wall of text here below -MJ
### Team meeting 2023-08-28
- steering group might want to participate in part of it
- January or February? autumn is filling up and RB does not have a "free week" left
- is zulip poll enough? what dates to offer?
- Help needed: mainly pre-schedule decision making like getting the dates and location.
- Transportation
- Coordination
- Schedule during the event