Note: I am making payment optional. I'll use the money to get us food (pizza). If you pay, that means you want pizza. If you don't, that means you'll bring your own food or eat after the meeting. This is an experiment - we have gotten pizza in the past and it's been a bit annoying to manage collecting money in person.

What is it: In addition to the monthly "larger" meetups, this is a smaller but more intimate meeting with a looser agenda. Please come ready to share and discuss your problems. We will cap the number of attendees to about 20 for this one to keep the discussion intimate. We will also ask people to send things they may want to discuss ahead of time.

Here are some of the things that were talked about in this forum:

One CTO was thinking through how to split out his teams as his overall technical team was growing and taking more projects.

Shared a situation where his team wanted to adopt a new technology,

A person who is launching his startup was figuring out how to hire first few people to expand the team.

Another person is hiring a very particular role of cloud sales engineer and was looking for ways to increase the pipeline, and also how to interview for intangibles like being very driven.

One person was struggling with a very significant downsizing of his team, and finding himself with more different technologies used across different projects than the number of people in his team.

Another shared experiences using a professional candidate vetter when hiring.