Brown Bag

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. An informal lunch-hour talk or knowledge-sharing session, historically attended while people brought their own lunch in a brown paper bag. In tech culture brown bags are a lightweight format for internal teaching and discussion.

    In plain English: An informal lunchtime talk or learning session at work.

    Example: "The database brown bag drew a bigger crowd than expected because everyone had war stories about failed migrations."

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