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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.
- 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.)
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:
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- 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?”)