[exterm]

As the author, I would know :)

Thank you for the praise.

Ours kind of organically grew over time, but as I've been keeping it alive for the last few years I have a pretty good idea of how I would start it fresh.

You probably have some people in the company who either know much more about architecture than others, or are working on projects that are more interesting in terms of architecture. Find one of them, convince them to give a 15 min talk.

Announce the talk widely within the company, tell people to come to the new "architecture guild" slack channel you created to get the details / invites.

Schedule an hour to give plenty of time for discussions after the talk.

Repeat biweekly.

[sandGorgon]

Thanks for replying.

How would you do it in a remote-first world? A zoom talk ?

How does this go beyond that one talk - would you incorporate aspects of this into official rewards/recognition ?

Or is gratification good enough. Getting a zoom audience is gonna be hard.

[exterm]

Shopify has been a fully remote company for a few months now. https://financialpost.com/technology/shopify-is-joining-twit...

We're not using zoom, but google meet - but yes, these happen completely online now.

I find that people that are doing interesting stuff often _want_ to talk about it. However, a big part of Shopify culture is "do things, tell people" - it is definitely encouraged to spend time spreading context.

It's not directly part of any rewards framework, but one metric that goes into promotions is the area of impact. By giving a talk to the guild, you can have impact on a group that's larger than your team, potentially the whole organization. It counts.

But another reward is the positive feedback, interesting discussions and new connections that you make through this.