There are some meetings worth attending across the organization. They are open for anyone to attend. These meetings are great for giving you line of sight over work happening across CDS.
| Mandatory All Staff | Managed by: CDS Chief of Staff What: A regular, CDS-wide gathering where we all meet to discuss organizational matters. Who: All of CDS Purpose: To share updates. The first half of the meeting is dedicated to management updates and shout-outs, the second half is a Town Hall discussions. How it works: Shout-outs can be planned or spontaneous. CDSers submit questions — anonymously if they want — for the town hall portion. All Staff Rolling Agenda & Notes 🔒 ↗️ Video Recordings 🔒 ↗️ |
| Show The Thing (STT) | Managed by: Internal Communications Lead What: A time to showcase work that is done or being done — there is one host and 5 presentations. Who: Any person or team can sign up to present at STT. STT are sometimes themed, for example, Product Takeovers — where all the presentations are by product teams. Purpose: To encourage people at CDS to talk about work in progress by actually showing the work in progress (ex. a live demonstration or screenshots). How it works: Teams or individuals sign up before STT. Link to sign up form 🔒 ↗️ Video Recordings 🔒 ↗️ |
| Ask Me Anything (AMA) | Managed by: Internal Communications Lead What: A popular questions and answer format inspired by Reddit. Who: There is a host and a guest (or group of guests, for example, a product team). Anyone can sign up to be a guest. Purpose: CDS team members can ask questions that matter to them. How it works: CDSers submit questions online through sli.do. The team then votes on which questions are the most relevant. AMAs are live — with the host asking and the guest answering in real-time. Link to sign up form 🔒 ↗️ AMA instructions 🔒 ↗️ |
Recordings
Missed an All-Staff or looking to review a past Show the Thing? Allow us to walk you through the different standards around recorded minutes and videos for our team rituals.
The default settings for video recordings on Google Meet are set to capture the speakers and their shared screen. Do note that attendees are not captured in the video recording. Chat logs are also deleted immediately after the event ends. All video recordings and minutes are made exclusively available to CDS employees.
You can find the link to the Video Recordings folder in the grid above.
If you’ve invited an external guest who will be video recorded, please send them this release form ↗️ at least three days before the event in order to get their consent.
If you wish not to be recorded as a presenter, please let the Internal Comms Lead know 24 hours in advance to accommodate video editing.