[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

[Richard Morgan]

Hi Neil,
I agree that there used to be that worry but I believe Employers think
differently now. I believe the signals being sent to Employers would be:

1. Here's a person who's got off their arse and decided to help others -
the kind of person I want in the team
2. This person clearly knows their stuff and understands the subject - the
kind of person I want in my team
3. This person is more visible to me than other potential candidates as I
can see and hear them not just read a name on a CV piece of paper

In terms of quality, I'm pretty sure that with the skills we have across
the group the quality will be pretty good right out of the gate.

And of course, having your name get greater exposure for an employable
topic that can be searched and viewed across the interwebs for any future
employer searching....some people pay for that kind of exposure.... :-)


On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 at 23:45 Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:

>
> 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>
> 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
>> > 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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