Suggestion: Community Mic

[AriaMinaei]

Suggestion: Community Mic

Last time I attended Berlin.js, other than enjoying the wonderful talks, I was hoping to come across someone to take over maintaining an npm package that I own.

Knowing the vibrant JS community of Berlin, I knew there is someone who would be interested. But, walking up to people one by one, and telling them about the npm package individually, was not the easiest way to find that person.

That's when I realized that maybe Berlin.js could benefit from the Community Mic idea that some other meetups have adopted.

Community Mic, is a short slot of time in the middle or end of the meetup, where a few of the attendees can take the mic for no longer than one minute each, and ask others to join them on an open source project, or help them with a technical challenge that they're stuck on, or get feedback on some code that they've written, or maybe just announce that they're new in town.

I've seen this idea working wonderfully at the DesignLab meetup for example. Out of about 50 attendees, usually only 2 or 3 come up to take the mic, and everybody so far has respected the time constraint. Plus, when people ask for help at the mic, they really do get support from the audience. So it's a great way to nurture the community.

As to whether it's okay for people to announce that they're looking for a job, or announce an open position, I do not have an opinion. Those announcements are allowed at DesignLab, and I haven't seen people abuse the opportunity.

[rmehner]

Thanks @AriaMinaei, that's a very good suggestion. I'll discuss this with the team :)