Open Source Summit North America 2018

Do you feel left out or uncomfortable at the company Christmas Party? Do you avoid the water cooler and try to limit interactions to business only? Do you find many such business-social interactions fraught with potential landmines & opportunities for misunderstanding? Do you see colleagues excluded or unable to participate when activities are informal, under-structured, or ill-organized?

This session will present a set of specific examples & stories from our direct experience of some of the less obvious opportunities for communication, networking, mentoring, & collaboration presented by ongoing day-job activities & thru collaboration events and forums.

We believe that the desire to assist each other & to collaborate is often present but unrealized. We will provide concrete & actionable examples of lowering the activation energy for positive interactions & creating an equality of opportunity for all team members.