The idea of the Tech Stammtisch is to promote community and provide opportunity to connect in person.
Motivation:
We lost something with the isolation and hybrid ways of working means it will not come back by itself. The Stammtisch aims at providing opportunity for the circle members and other interested colleges to hangout, connect and trade war stories from projects, exchange ideas and generally taking stock of the situation.
Background and context:
This sprang out of discussions at the Connected Tech Adventzauber mit Florian Silbereisen in Dec. 2022.
People like to meet ad-hoc, but there is never/rarely critical mass in the office anymore. New joiners have few opportunities to connect outside of their direct peers in MS Teams. For parents and colleges living far away, it is also desirable to have some kind of plannable dates to orient towards. By providing a lose structure and some predictability, it is easier to plan to be in the office at a certain day and thus meet other (practice) colleges for informal conversations about our shared experiences from different projects.