Class meeting

Structure

Setting

We try as much as possible to placed in a circle, or around a table/group of table. There's visually no hierarchy during those class meetings. Most of them happened in the Aquarium.

Roles

• Moderator: leads the conversation by being extra attentive to what everybody says. They're the one who indicates who's next in line to talk, and also do their best to keep the conversation in the subject.

• Note Taker: In charge of taking notes in a pad, trying to make the notes as clear as possible for us to go back to it later on.

• Assistant note taker: Assists the Note Taker, takes over them when they want to intervene in the conversation.
• Time Keeper: Keeps an eye on the clock to avoid having one subject taking over the whole meeting.

The roles can obviously switch in the middle of a meeting! We tried our best to keep the roles as un-fixed as possible, making sure we took turns and rotated the roles.

Agenda

At the start of every meeting, we start by making a list of subject that we need to talk about, list them in order of priority, and allot a certain amount of time to each of them. If we aren't able to go through of the subjects of the day, they are pushed on the agenda for the next meeting as priority topics.

Rules

• Staying calm and respectful
• When we want to intervene, we indicate it showing our hand. If multiple people want to talk at the same time, we look around for the amount of finger people are lifting ☝︎= first to talk, ✌︎ = second to talk, etc. The moderator keeps an eye on that and tells people when they can jump into the conversation.
• The Time keeper will remind the group of how much time we still have on the subject.
• A pause is scheduled in the Agenda, but it's up to the group to decide to keep it or not, move it, skip it, etc.
• We try to keep the meetings not much longer than 1h.