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How to run a Lunch & Learn
How to handle the people process for Lunch & Learns

Running a Lunch & Learn

Hello Artsy employee or curious outsider! This document outlines how to run our lunch and learns. The process of planning a L&L spans weeks and generally goes through the following steps. The planning process is managed in the Lunch and Learns GitHub project.

  • Ideas: These can be either people we'd like to present or ideas that we'd like to find speakers for – either Artsy employees or external speakers we'd like to invite in.
  • In Conversation: We have reached out and are in talks with someone specific to present a L&L.
  • Scheduled: A date has been confirmed with the speaker and they have received a calendar event invitation.
  • Add to Docs/Dropbox/YouTube: The presentation is finished but needs to be documented (see below).
  • Done: It's done!

Read on for more specifics.

Suggesting a Presenter

Are you an Artsy employee? Do you want to suggest someone to present a Lunch & Learn? Great! Go to the #lunch-and-learn Slack channel and let us know. One of the engineers who helps run Lunch & Learns will handle the referral from there, probably asking you to introduce them to your speaker over email.

Handling a Referral

Sometimes you'll get an introduction to a speaker from a colleague, passing the baton to you to organize the actual event. Just follow these steps:

  • Say thanks!
  • Pass along the link to the lunch_and_learn.md.
  • Add a card to the "In Conversation" section of the Lunch and Learn project, or move the existing card there from "Ideas".
  • Discuss what topic makes sense.
  • Pick a date and move their card to the "Scheduled" column (and add the date to the card title). Send them a calendar invitation.

Running a Lunch & Learn

The Monday Before

  • Send a note to Camille and Katherine to be included in the weekly newsletter.
  • Make some noise on Slack to get folks excited to come on Thursday.

The Day Before

  • Double-check with the speaker that they're still available. Make sure to thank them again for their time.
  • Add the speaker to Envoy.

The Day Of

Be on 26 at 11:40 to receive our guest. Take them upstairs and while they're getting set up, offer some water. Get them set up on the Zoom.us meeting and remind them that you'll take them out for lunch afterward.

At 11:50, send an @here reminder in the #dev (also post in #general). Give folks a few minutes past noon to show up, but don't hold the show up waiting for them.

Immediately before you present the speaker, hit the record button in Zoom.us and it'll ask you for your email address.

Afterward

Right after the talk, ask the speaker for their slides. Then take the speaker and a few folks out to lunch. Tataki is never a bad choice. Make sure to expense this meal.

Later, Zoom.us will email you the video recording. Upload the video and the slides to the Artsy Engineering Dropbox folder and post a link to Slack. Send a pull request to the Lunch and Learn docs that adds the speaker to the list. Make sure to thank the speaker again over email, offer a copy of the video, and reiterate that we owe them a talk now.

If the talk was given by an Artsy colleague, ask them if it would be appropriate to upload to YouTube for public viewing. Maybe even a quick blog post.

Move the card to the "Done" column. Nice work!