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# Workroom PlayTime in 2026
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-playtime-in-2026/
- Published: 2026-01-13T15:26:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-13T15:26:12.000Z
- Description: Plans, awaiting contact with reality
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: #PlayTime

*Mostly from the message sent announcing* [*Workroom PlayTime 044*](https://www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-playtime-044-2/)

## Plans for 2026

I'll continue to run short, (roughly) weekly, online interactive workshops throughout 2026\. I've learnt a lot doing it in 2025, had fun, met new people and enjoyed their company. Wahey!

Here's an idea of what's planned...

- **January** – [*Interesting Testing*](https://www.workroom-productions.com/interesting-testing/): other people's projects that challenge my perspective, and may challenge yours.
- **February** – [*SpeakerPrep*](https://github.com/workroomprds/SpeakerPrepDay), to work on ideas and abstracts
- **March** – [*Testing Decisions*](https://www.workroom-productions.com/tag/testing-decisions/), looking at costs and returns. Maybe *Puzzles...*
- **April** – [*Unix* *tools for testers*](https://www.workroom-productions.com/unix-tools-for-testers/), returning to 2025's emergent theme
- **May** – *Agents for Testers*, because that's what Bart and I are learning about...

You'll see that I plan to run themed sets in 2026, roughly one set a month. A couple of weeks after the end of a set, I'll run a long† session to re-cover some of the ground – adding context and materials around the exercises.

From now‡*,* all short Workroom PlayTime sessions will be open to all subscribers. I may restrict the longer sessions to paying subscribers, or set a fee for non-subscribers.

I'll try to run most Thursdays, but times are likely to be *more* irregular. This may be good – outside your working hours may be better for some of you, others may be able to come without setting an alarm or staying up late. It's *bad* for marketing – and a pain in the diary for all. 

I will continue to experiment with time and format this year; running the same session a couple of times for different geographical groups, possibly offering an asynchronous path, dipping into video and audio.

(†) By 'short', I mean 20 minutes or so. By 'long', I mean 90 minutes or so.

(‡) I write 'from now', but it's been that way since... um... May?