Meeting more people: Hallway++ means you're never interrupting

Jonathan "Duke" Leto jonathan at leto.net
Tue May 21 11:11:15 PDT 2013


Howdy,

+1 to hallway++

I am looking for new gigs and contracts and this seems like a very
efficient way of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Duke

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Khaled Hussein
<khaled.hussein at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Wendy van Dijk <yapc2009 at wendy.org> wrote:
>
>> Count me in the hallway track.  Excellent initiative, I joined last year and enjoyed it.
>> Greetz, Wendy
>>
>> At 07:02 PM 5/21/2013, Matt S Trout wrote:
>> >tl;dr ->
>> >
>> >If it says Hallway++ on somebody's badge or on a sign at a table, they're in.
>> >
>> >People doing Hallway++ would prefer your default to be "come and say
>> >hello" so they don't miss out on interesting conversations. Having to
>> >say if it isn't convenient right now is a conciously chosen trade-off.
>> >
>> >Lurking is fine; it's ok to listen to the conversation and then
>> >introduce yourself when there's a lull.
>> >
>> >Or, fundamentally:
>> >
>> >Hallway++ means you're never interrupting.
>> >
>> >full explanation ->
>> >
>> >http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/hwppna-2013/
>> >
>> >We did this last year. It was awesome fun.
>> >
>> >--
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