Meetup : Berlin, practical rationality

As announced on the mailing list: The next meetup will happen on Friday, April 5th, 19:30 at my house and we'll try something new. I declare it a 'practical rationality' or 'work' meetup, in which I'd like to establish some differences from the regular social gatherings we've done so far.

• Have a plan. Schedule food and activities. Actually follow it.
• Moderate discussion more strongly. Each subgroup will have one person responsible for keeping things on track, stop inadvertent topic switches, interrupt excessive anecdotes.
• Will probably alternate with social meetups.

Here's what I suggest for Friday:

19:30 - 20:00 - Settling down and food.

Edit: Fixme.

20:00 - 20:30 - What have you learned since we last met? What have you done?

This could be an interesting regular activity where we get a glimpse of what you're doing and which could help seed discussion later. Everyone is prompted to talk, answers should be short (< 3 min).

20:30 - 21:15 - Discussion groups?

I'd like to try breaking into discussion groups. The idea is that there are a several people who've announced beforehand that they'd lead a discussion on some topic and have briefly studied it. At the meetup, they give a mini-presentation (5 minute-ish) and everyone else decides which group to join. At the end of the session, one person from each group summarises for everyone else.

Check the mailing list for topics.

21:15 - end - Chat.

See you there!