Notes from Code Cumbria AGM

After a discussion on the future of CodeCumbria. Originally intended to be a call to action to get
more stewards, it turned into a discussion on what people want Code Cumbria to be.

What is Code Cumbria for: "Community, to learn stuff, to be visible and grow a scene" - it was 
noticed that of all the people that could attend, those that do are predominantly the remote
workers and the young (highlighting the importance of social for the group)

Focus on topics, not talks. Rather than dredging up talks each month, we want people to "introduce
topics", be it a 30s intro or a 15min presentation. Creating talks is proving too difficult.

Talks:

Topics will be discussed at the end of the meet (e.g. "what would I like to learn or hear about") and
voted on. We can then guess at a general theme for the next month which helps with marketing. Lean
Coffee gets a promotion

Don't be so anxious about deep dives into tech. Don't favour safe/broad topics

Ideas beyond presentations:

Consider the group watching of tech videos for discussion after. Think like a book club, without the 
requirement of reading a full book!

Consider Skype / recorded presentations for remote speakers with potential for live Q&As after. 
Technically possible? Worthwhile?

Side project show and tell

Local tech demos for PR / advertising vacancies - keen to keep this to a small time-limited section.

Mob programming "blind" learning (!). Learn a brand new topic while everyone clusters around a few laptops.

Fact blast(TM) - group research a topic, then a game to reveal interesting trivial by working around each 
person in the room and shouting out interesting facts / trivia

Consider food - sweets, ice cream, pizza, nandos. We are unfunded so I'm not sure how this'll work.