This session is facilitated by Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Jez Cope
About this session
This session will be a lightly structured group discussion. Participants will be invited to share personal stories about their feelings as they simultaneously worked hard to fulfil goals - and were successful - but felt unable to meet all the goals they would have liked to. We will follow with coping strategies - such as saying “no” before taking too much on, time-limiting projects strictly, assessing return on investment, avoiding scope-creep, offloading responsibilities, and navigating and defending against facilitating structures and systems. Actionable points will be written down to share with the community.
Goals of this session
Working openly can result in sparkling, full, and exciting resumes, especially for those who contribute to open collaborative projects outside of standard working hours. This may look impressive from the outside but often has a mental toll that may not be visible from a carefully-curated online profile, or even casual face-to-face interactions. This session is designed to not only encourage open project maintainers and contributors to share their daily challenges and coping mechanisms, but also to allow others to realise that everyone - perhaps even their role models - have a human face and struggle on a day to day basis with the simultaneous desires to work more yet also take enough time to rest and recharge.
This session follows in the footsteps of #OKFail sessions from previous years.