Create & Package Team Day - 20th Edition - Friday, September 26 2025
What is this?
Hello team!
It's time to have another Create & Package Team Day! (See the list of past team days).
Please use: #s_create_and_package_team-day on Slack.
Event Goal: have a long time socializing with your fellow teammates in the devopscreate & devopspackage stage for one day!
- We recommend blocking out any work-related activities and meetings so that you have the entire day to socialize.
- Apart from the scheduled timeslots, you are encouraged to schedule your own ad-hoc initiatives like playing specific games.
When
Date: Friday, September 26 2025
Time: Throughout the day!
Timeslots
To increase the attendance and allow every team member to participate, we'll have several meetings along the day to socialize.
Proposed 1h timeslots:
| Auckland |
Melbourne |
Manila |
Delhi |
London |
New York |
Vancouver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1pm | 11am | 9am | 6:30am | 2am | 9pm ❖ | 6pm ❖ |
| 4pm | 2pm | 12pm | 9:30am | 5am | 12am | 9pm ❖ |
| 8pm | 6pm | 4pm | 1:30pm | 9am | 4am | 1am |
| 1am ☨ | 11pm | 9pm | 6:30pm | 2pm | 9am | 6am |
| 4am ☨ | 2am ☨ | 12am ☨ | 9:30pm | 5pm | 12pm | 9am |
| 8am ☨ | 6am ☨ | 4am ☨ | 1:30am ☨ | 9pm | 3pm | 1pm |
- bold = within working hours
- italic = a bit early/a bit late
- ☨ = Saturday, outside of working works.
- ❖ = Thursday, outside of working works.
Where
Events for each timeslot will be in the Create Stage calendar (Add to Google Calendar or subscribe to gitlab.com_rtcej6er2a5n9n9rko21coev44@group.calendar.google.com). There are Zoom meeting URLs attached to each event.
What activities?
It's up to us to decide, really, so we'll open a thread in this issue for you to throw your suggestions until the end of DEADLINE_FOR_SUGGESTIONS. We'll have a bit over a week to vote on the proposed activities for each slot.
Anything else we missed?
Ask in the comments and we'll get to you!
Checklist for the organizer
Initial Setup
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Create an issue with the title: Create Team Day - Nth Edition - WEEKDAY, MONTH DAY YEAR -
Create all 6 events on Create Stage Google Calendar. See January 29th, 2021 examples. To make this process a bit faster, you can create all the events at once by using Google calendar's "import CSV" feature. Here is a sample spreadhsheet you can use to create the events. -
Create a new Zoom room that is open to participants all day -
Add zoom room link to the event -
Add the agenda to the event description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14vVXNm8lLU06N9b0EasKcQpO4zRvODQRYQCC2KMowPw/edit
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Create a thread in this issue to collect suggestions of activities until DEADLINE_FOR_SUGGESTIONS -
Share the link to the issue in #s_create and #s_create_team-day and ask for suggestions
On September 19th
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Create several Google Forms, one for each session. Like this one. -
Share the links to the forms in #s_create_team-day and in this issue
1 Day Before Create Team Day
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Fill in the top 3 voted activities for each session in: -
Agenda -
Google Calendar events
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