工程经理论坛

A long-time tenet of Squarespace's engineering culture is gathering to share knowledge and wins. These gatherings occur within formal organizational structures via All Hands meetings and team/organization demos, but also informally as independently organized meetings that bring together engineers across functional and technical disciplines. These independent meetings have grown in number over time, and now include Infrastructure Council, Backend Council, Data Council, and Frontend Forum. Although attendance is optional, the councils and forums offer a number of benefits to all who attend: public speaking opportunities, discussion about emerging technologies, and the opportunity to engage with coworkers whom you may not regularly work with. They've also spawned a number of Engineering Working Groups that have gone on to address significant cross-cutting engineering challenges.

Squarespace工程文化的一个长期原则是聚集起来分享知识和胜利。这些聚会不仅发生在正式的组织结构中，如全员会议和团队/组织演示，而且也是非正式的独立组织的会议，将不同职能和技术学科的工程师聚集在一起。这些独立会议的数量随着时间的推移而增加，现在包括基础设施委员会、后端委员会、数据委员会和前端论坛。虽然参加会议是可选的，但理事会和论坛为所有参加会议的人提供了许多好处：公开演讲的机会，关于新兴技术的讨论，以及与你可能不经常一起工作的同事接触的机会。他们还催生了一些工程工作组，这些工作组已经开始解决重大的跨领域工程挑战。

As a long-time attendee of many of these meetings, I've experienced first hand how effective they are at creating a sense of togetherness across an ever-growing engineering organization. Coordinated by groups of dedicated volunteers, their lack of ties to formal organizational hierarchy opens the door for more engagement across a larger group of people. Presentations don't have to center on things happening at work - they can be about learnings from interesting side projects, or conference recaps, or just open questions that someone wants to bring to the floor. The outcomes are less about polish and information dispersal than discussion, learning, and fostering community.

作为一个长期参加这些会议的人，我亲身体验到它们在创造一个不断增长的工程组织的团结意识方面是多么有效。在一群热心的志愿者的协调下，他们缺乏与正式组织结构的联系，为更多人的参与打开了大门。演讲不一定要以工作中发生的事情为中心--它们可以是关于从有趣的副业中学习到的东西，或会议回顾，或只是某人想提出的公开问题。其结果与其说是抛光和信息传播，不如说是讨论、学习和促进社区的发展。

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