> “Open ended / agenda less meetings may not be useful for most devs. However, if we host a topical nest … and we record it this could be a bit more useful.” @elsat 

I kinda disagree. Yea, we don’t wanna waste anybody’s time with an agenda-less formal meeting … but having a predetermined topic and a reserved “stage” just isn’t conducive for new devs or new ideas to surface and be known. 

Devs need a space (time and place) for discussion, but informality itself is an important variable to leverage.

For this case, an open ended “dev beer thirty” might also be valuable.