deamanto

The place I work at have a day just for devs to do whatever we think is good for our own learning and collaboration. I've been tasked to think about an activity that can be done within that day.

There are generally a lot of presentations/talks but I find that structure getting a bit stale and want to seek ideas that are outside just "giving talks" so that the devs can interact with each other.

Some requirements I've set for myself:

* a couple hours long (can be longer)

* able to be done within a small group (~3-5 people) of all skill ranges

* important that it's collaborative or interactive so that people aren't just working in silos

Some ideas:

* 1 day, very short hackathon-style activity

* work on something open source (probably need to decide on what package and set up instructions prior)

The place I work at has a 1 hour time slot every other week for all the devs to meet up remotely which usually has people presenting some topic to teach others.

I want to do something different that is still web dev related, but shouldn't take longer than 30-40 minutes all up including the initial walkthrough.

Skill levels range from one end to the other so I don't want it too challenging, too easy might be okay given such a short time frame.

Some ideas would be ones from codepip like Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden. (These actually might do the trick)