Caffeine Break committee planning page

About Caffeine Break

The short URL for this page is: https://go.illinois.edu/CaffeineBreakSchedule

We’re a weekly meeting (Fridays at 9 am central) where we alternate between topical speakers and open agendas for freeform conversation.

Guide for new committee members

Roles and processes

Here’s how we plan to subdivide the Caffeine Break roles between organizer, host, and post processing in 2022 and beyond.

Scheduling

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2024 schedule

January

Organizer: Kelly

Post-processor: NA

  •  Jan 5: (open agenda?)
  • Jan 12: (open agenda)
  • Jan 19: (open agenda)
  • Jan 26: Macs

February

Organizer: Matt Macomber

Post-processor: Matt Macomber

  •  Feb 2: Social Roundtable (Organizing Tips and Strategies)
  • Feb 9: Keep Older Phones Running Longer with LineageOS (James Hamilton)
  • Feb. 16: Non-destructive data transformation with Tableau Prep (Mike Cervone)
  • Feb. 23: Macs

March

Organizer: Dena

Post-processor: Priya Ravi

  • Mar. 1: Automated Software Testing with Pytest (Jamie Stadnik)
  • Mar. 8: Open Agenda
  • Mar. 15: Liz Shallenberger and Courtney Fleeger, Accessible Email
  • Mar. 22: Dena, IT Pro Orientation
  • Mar. 29: Macs

April

Organizer: Dena

Post-processor: Priya Ravi

  • Apr. 5: Open Agenda (Webcon, committee members swamped)
  • Apr. 12: Primer on Auto-attendants, Call Queues and Role-based Accounts in Teams (Mike Cervone)
  • Apr. 19: Accessibility Overlays and the Overlay Fact Sheet (Matt Macomber)
  • Apr. 26: Macs

May

Organizer: Matt with Kelly filling in May 18th – 28th

Post-processor: Priya Ravi

  • May 3: Open agenda
  • May 10: Dr. Lawrence Angrave, ClassTranscribe transcription software
  • May 17: Keith Hays, ADA Title II Update
  • May 24: Ed Delaporte, Google Chrome cookie changes
  • May 31: Macs

June

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • June 7: (maybe ITPF feedback?)
  • June 14:
  • June 21:
  • June 29: Macs

July

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • July 5:
  • July 12:
  • July 19:
  • July 26: Macs

August

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • Aug. 2 – Open Agenda?
  • Aug. 9 – ____
  • Aug. 16 – Start of school year concerns/updates? (classes about to start)
  • Aug. 23 – ____
  • Aug. 30 – Macs

September

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • Sept. 6 –
  • Sept. 13 –
  • Sept. 20 –
  • Sept. 27 – Macs

October

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • Oct. 4 –
  • Oct. 11 –
  • Oct. 18 –
  • Oct. 25 – Macs

November

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • Nov. 1 –
  • Nov. 8 – ITPF feedback?
  • Nov. 15 –
  • Nov. 22 – Macs
  • (Nov. 29 – out for Thanksgiving break)

December

Organizer: ____

Post-processor: ____

  • Dec. 6 –
  • Dec. 13 – Macs
  • (Dec. 20 – likely holiday)
  • (Dec. 27 – def. holiday)

Future Topic Ideas

Backups / in Case of Cancellation

  • Mike Cervone – Non-destructive data transformation with Tableau Prep
  • (may become ITPF proposal instead?) Dena?, New IT Pro Orientation (got the bones at http://go.illinois.edu/ITProOrientation, should fill out more) (movable)
  • Reference interviews (Piper? Dena?)
  • Kelly Delahanty – What D&D taught me about UX

Want to present, just haven’t picked a date:

    • Isaac Galvan, future Security trainings

Topics Ideas

  • Best practices for creating training materials (requested by G Mast, speaker might be someone in Rims?)
  • More AI focused topics
    • AI and coding/development
    • Microsoft Co-pilot
    • AI and Security (Ask Isaac Galvan)
  • Caffeine Break topic ideas – The larger ideas collection of things that need more work/more contacts to turn into a particular proposal

Open discussion topics

  • Tool show-and-tells, focused on specific types of tools
    • Productivity
    • Note taking
    • UX Research
    • Diagramming/whiteboards
    • Prototyping
    • Accessibility
    • Data viz
    • etc
  • How do you organize your files/workspace/bookmarks/resources/etc? Personal project management? (Done before, can revisit)
  • Social/Casual Discussions
    • Caffeine Break on Caffeine! Free roam discussion?
    • Books (Done before, can revisit)
    • TV/Movies
    • Games (Board games, TTRPG, Video games)
    • Gardening (do in Spring, probably March)
    • Craft/DIY projects
    • Recommendations on fun/new/useful tech that people use either for work or recreationally (something like “what’s in your bookmarks?”)

Past Caffeine Break topics