Serendipitous connections, like discovering a shared interest with someone in line at the coffee shop, look slightly different in distributed organizations. This year, leveraging the values of open source, Automattic shared the planning and organization of a company-wide 24-hour online event among the entire company, in order to create space for serendipitous connections.
What followed was energy, diversity, and abundant creativity!
The Purpose: Intentional Random Connections
As we welcomed 2023, this event was an invitation to connect across divisions, timezones, and geographies ac