[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

Wed Jun 10 14:03:58 BST 2015

where would I find the tech hub mailing list please Paul?

kind regards

Emyr

On 10 June 2015 at 13:57, Paul Harwood <paul.harwood at techhub.com> wrote:

> Putting on events is hard.
>
> You have to continually remind people they are on especially for niche
> subjects, please use our community manager (when the new one is hired) to
> help you put on events and publicise them. The resource is free and as long
> as you are all on the TechHub mailing list then you should get alerts.
>
> I know the TechHub mailing list is not the hackspace mailing list - but
> IMO the two should not be mutually exclusive, events is all about pushing
> out to as many people who may be interested as possible.
>
> Cheers!
>
> — paul
>
>
> On 10 Jun 2015, at 13:43, David Davies-Day <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  All sounds good so far, I'll dig out when the cut off is to get events
> in the "what's on" guide,  given how we're not sure when we will resettle,
> this is a perfect opportunity to schedule evens for future dates,  date
> that we know we will have moved by.
>
>  I've been looking to reboot my tech and re YouTube channel for ages (for
> older, less experienced videos of mine, just Google: djdavies83), I would
> be more than happy to do some video, editing and up loading, also happy to
> be the face of a tutorial if the organiser prefers to stay behind the lens.
>
>  Justin, what formats for artwork are needed for the Laser cutter? I
> forget what the bed size is.
>
>  A small fee for non members on tutorial nights may well work out, with
> something to take home at the end of course, there are still public who
> feel that "If something is free, it's not worth anything".
>
>  My break is about to end, I know there is more I wanted to ask/give I
> put on, I'll email again before 2pm.
>
>  No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk>
> Date:10/06/2015 07:11 (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?
>
>  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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