Hello, all!
As you may have noticed, Tiffany and I established a quarterly community meetup schedule for 2024, kicking off with our first meetup on Thursday, January 11th.
Here’s the full schedule (times are Eastern time zone):
We made this schedule based on your feedback from the survey (thank you for participating).
We got great suggestions for topics, but admittedly, I should’ve set this question up as a multi-select with an “other” option—there was a great variance in the topics suggested across the 3 questions. I took the suggestions and classified them as best I could to figure out what people wanted to talk about the most.
The “Other” slice (the biggest one) represents topics suggested that fell just outside of what I thought of as otherwise easily classifiable areas of Tessitura. Though it was the format that got the fewest number of votes, I think this would be a good argument for using Lean Coffee Table for at least one of our scheduled meetups. This way, everyone will get the opportunity to pose questions and discuss topics that are important to them with the group. Other than that, General Q&A, Show & Tell, and Presentations/Trainings are the formats we’ll stick to for our meetups.
It looks like a lot of folks in this group would be interested in an in-person meetup! While this could be challenging with our group representing two states, we will put our heads together and see if we can figure out a good location, date, and time that would work for those who want to participate.
Finally, if you’ve expressed interest in presenting and/or helping us plan meetups, please reach out to me or Tiffany (or both) with the topic for your presentation or to get invited to our planning meetings. We would be very grateful to have your help!
We will roll out more information about the topic and format of the first meeting as soon as possible. Please reach out to us if you have any questions in the meantime or reply to this post with your thoughts. Looking forward to meeting everyone in January!
Thanks,
Michael & Tiffany
P.S. If you’re interested in seeing results of any other questions from the survey, let me know.