[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

[Emyr Morris]

Video streaming is a great idea

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015, Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
wrote:

> It's often the case that people see 'free' events as something that can be
> missed.
>
> How do we feel about putting a 'ticket' price (~£10) on the events and
> offering them to non-members too?
>
> Or, more radical - how do we feel about 'paying' members for each new
> person they can bring to a workshop (payback being that a % of new persons
> will become members)...?
>
>
> Guess we also need to get better at scheduling and lining up attendees
> with Presenters dates to make it easier for everyone......
>
> Or, more radical - we run the workshop and 'video' it so those that
> couldn't attend (could be zero attendees) can still benefit, The presenter
> has a useful workshop and the Hackspace has content it can post on-line to
> attract new members (or charge for access behind a membership wall).
>
>
> P.S. Wire-wrap Jewellery - not ranking! Have people not seen Game of
> Thrones, they're all wearing it ;-)
>
>
> On 9 June 2015 at 16:17, Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk');>> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:46 +0000, Richard Morgan wrote:
>> > Hi Emyr,
>> > Thanks for the summary - I miss the Monday nights. :-)
>> We should perhaps make more effort to post a summary like this every
>> week, might help those that can't always make it along and entice
>> others.
>>
>>
>> > I understand the move is coming(ish) but it takes people a while to
>> > get passes from Family, organise their time to attend the events - so
>> > it wouldn't do any harm to put some of the more 'flexible' events that
>> > don't rely on fixed equipment (i.e. Python, Origami, GIT, Typesetting,
>> > wearables ones) to be scheduled in. We can always run the event in a
>> > different Techhub room if we need to...
>>
>> It is very disheartening for the people that have made the effort to put
>> on workshops when nobody turns up to them, we need to make sure that we
>> are running events that people actually want and will turn up to.
>>
>> or we need to run more group events that don't need a specific person to
>> put in all the effort, for example would people be interested in a
>> monthly table top gaming night if we scheduled one?
>>
>> To help with getting the scheduling right, could people please indicate
>> which evenings they would prefer events happened on, as i know a few
>> people have clashes on thursdays.
>>
>> http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Polls/Workshops
>>
>>
>>
>> > I'm just keen! The wire-wrap jewellery one is what I'm waiting for :-)
>> It doesn't rank very highly alas.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Richard
>


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