[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

[Neil Jones]

On 09/06/15 23:37, Emyr Morris wrote:
> Video streaming is a great idea
>
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015, Richard Morgan 
> <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk 
> <mailto: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).
>

We went through the idea of videoing talks some years ago with the Linux 
User Groups and  talks they were running. The general thought was it 
would put people off because things which were done informally, which is 
our style too, would not necessarily go down with future employers who 
were googling them.



>
>
>     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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