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About Caffeine Break
The Caffeine Break series was launched as a volunteer-coordinated group in the mid-2000s by Craig Jackson, Irene Sakellarakis, and others from around campus.
It’s a Friday morning get-together where IT Professionals on campus can discuss current IT events and learn about topics of interest.
Since 2016, Caffeine Break has become an informal source of free training and cross-campus information exchange during the gaps between the bi-annual IT Pro Forums.
Most weeks have a scheduled topic with speakers, hosted around campus in classrooms with projectors, sometimes made available online for remote attendance, and sometimes audio and/or video-recorded for future reference.
- If you want to get in touch about an idea, email caffeinebreak-committee@lists.illinois.edu.
- If you want to get notified about upcoming Caffeine Break events, you can either join CCSP or (if you want Caffeine Break only) join caffeinebreak@lists.illinois.edu. (This KB article has more about how to subscribe to mailing lists, and other campus IT mailing lists.)
We’re recruiting! If you’d like to join the Caffeine Break committee to identify topics of interest to the IT pro community and arrange for speakers and locations, please contact the current committee members to let us know.
Caffeine Break topic ideas
Got an idea for a future Caffeine Break or IT Pro Forum session? Let us know by adding to the ideas page!
Caffeine Break committee
Mike Cervone
Matt Childress
Kelly Delahanty
Crystal Livingood
Matt Macomber
Priya Ravi
Dena Strong
Caffeine Break committee planning information
The Caffeine Break committee planning page is for tracking who’s scheduling which months and what future sessions could focus on.
Caffeine Break guide for new committee members provides a guide for scheduling processes and communications.
The Caffeine Break roles and processes guide describes what goes into each week and which role takes which tasks.
Archive:
Caffeine Break – Collected Notes and Video Links
Video and audio recordings of past Caffeine Breaks are available from the Illinois MediaSpace at https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/channel/Campus%2BIT%2BPro%2BVideos/45860831 .