Meetings
We maintain a consistent schedule of regular, recurring meetings to keep our distributed team aligned across different time zones.
Scheduled Meetings
Strategy Meeting
- When: Quarterly First Saturdays, 60 minutes
- Who: Strategy team
- Purpose: Strategic planning, organization updates, and key decision-making
Operations Meeting
- When: Monthly Saturdays, 60 minutes (with additional ad-hoc meetings based on collaboration preparation needs)
- Who: Operations team
- Purpose: Review collaboration status, discuss new partnership opportunities, and operational updates
Engineering Meeting
- When: Fortnightly Saturdays, 60 minutes
- Who: Engineering team
- Purpose: Share progress on product development, technical discussions, and clarifications
Watering-Together Activity Check-in
- When: Weekly Saturdays, 45 minutes
- Who: All participants in the watering together activity
- Purpose: Share updates on tasks, experiences, observations, etc.
Guidelines
Meeting Standards
- All meetings accommodate multiple time zones (currently, GMT, CET, CST, and IST.)
- Meeting agendas are discussed and finalized 72 hours before the meeting to allow adequate preparation time
- Come prepared with any required pre-work
- Use Element for questions during presentations
- Action items are documented and assigned before meeting ends
Meeting Template
[Meeting Title]
[Participants] | [Date] | [Platform] | [Duration]
💬 Segue (5 MIN)
- Quick check-ins and context
📋 Agenda (45 MIN)
- Topic 1:
- Topic 2:
🎯 Action Items (5 MIN)
- [ ] Task - Owner - Due date
➡️ Next Steps/Notes (5 MIN)
- Key takeaways