Next meetup?

[Matthew Cengia]

Hey guys,

Are there any definite plans for the next weeknight meetup yet? Is there anything I can do to help? I'm available most weeknights usually except Thursday.

[Angus Gratton]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for bringing this up! Lilly has other work commitments for a
few more weeks keeping her busy, and as we were using her work venue
it's slowed down in the interim. She generously arranged with one of
her colleagues who volunteered to open the space for us, though.

I was able to help convene, but I hadn't actually been to a Learner's
Meetup myself yet so I was hoping to find someone who had already been
and would come and co-convene with me. You've been before, yes? Would
you be interested?

Cheers,


Angus

PS Regarding a July/August weekend workshop I can also update - am
waiting to hear about Electron Workshop availability.

[Lilly Ryan]

Hey all,

Angus is right - I am unable to personally be involved in any workshops in the next few weeks due to work commitments, but my workplace is still happy for us to use the space. I can arrange more workshop dates and publicise them on Meetup and at my office if there's a night that suits you. One of my colleagues can definitely open the space, but I need to make sure that there are (hopefully!) two OTS coaches able to attend on the night.

Matt C., if you have ideas for OTS workshops that you would like to run as well, whether on the weekend on a weeknight, please let us know! We would welcome your input.

Cheers,

Lilly

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[Matthew Cengia]

Hi everyone,

On 2014-07-20 21:53, Lilly Ryan wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Angus is right - I am unable to personally be involved in any workshops in
> the next few weeks due to work commitments, but my workplace is still happy
> for us to use the space. I can arrange more workshop dates and publicise
> them on Meetup and at my office if there's a night that suits you. One of
> my colleagues can definitely open the space, but I need to make sure that
> there are (hopefully!) two OTS coaches able to attend on the night.

Huh. That's odd. Angus' email ended up in my spam folder. Hopefully that
won't keep happening.

> Matt C., if you have ideas for OTS workshops that you would like to run as
> well, whether on the weekend on a weeknight, please let us know! We would
> welcome your input.

Sure. With regard to weeknight events, it seems that while it's prudent
to have a program that you can run if necessary, often people seem quite
happy to form small groups to ask and answer questions. The last
learners' meetup I went to, I taught somebody the fundamentals of
relational databases, despite the tentative plan (assuming nothing else
presented itself) being to offer the OTS Python intro.

I'm not sure what has been offered as the focus of mid-week meetups
recently, but given a week or so of notice, I'm sure I can read up on
and help teach any of the content in the OTS github repos.

In addition to that, I am happy to give an introduction to
OpenStreetMap, which I think is often overlooked by many as a meaningful
alternative to Google Maps. I can discuss anything of the following:

* How OSM works internally
* How anybody can edit it, and demonstrate how trivial this is
* How you can export large chunks of the map (something Google maps
makes difficult)
* Possible mobile (mostly Android) apps
* Embedding basic custom maps in your website
* Probably other stuff

As a Linux Sysadmin, I have an extremely strong handle on use of the
Linux shell, particularly advanced Bash scripting, and could teach about
that, or how to basically any sort of management of Debian or Ubuntu
systems. My Redhat, however, is a little rusty. I'm sure there's heaps I
could talk about on this topic, it's just a matter of how many people
would be interested in systems administration. A good reference guide
(and source of possible ideas for presentations) is
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php, which I've read, and covers all the
fundamentals in a sane order.

[...]

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Angus Gratton <an...@opentechschool.org>
> wrote:

[...]

> > I was able to help convene, but I hadn't actually been to a Learner's
> > Meetup myself yet so I was hoping to find someone who had already been
> > and would come and co-convene with me. You've been before, yes? Would
> > you be interested?

[...]

Yes, I've been to one Learners' Meetup; I think the second-most-recent?
I definitely would be interested in helping run it.

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Regards,
Matthew Cengia

[Angus Gratton]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:56:03PM +1000, Matthew Cengia wrote:
> Yes, I've been to one Learners' Meetup; I think the second-most-recent?
> I definitely would be interested in helping run it.

Yay! Thanks Matt.

I guess we can make this happen then, all we need is a date that suits
everyone?

- Angus