Talks at hackerspace?

[Steven Pickles]

Hi hackers,

One of the ways I describe a hack session to people, is as a sit-down-and-work complement to the more common stand-up-and-talk style of tech meet. This description is hampered by the fact that, in Adelaide at the moment, there aren't a whole lot of the talky meetings to complement.

One talky meeting is the Tech Talks / Tech Nest meetings that Kim Hawtin has been organising. You might have noticed that they have been bouncing around between venues recently (FabLab, Adelaide Uni).

So what am I getting at? Basically I want to gauge the community's opinion on hosting the Tech Nest talks at Hackerspace, most likely during the last Wednesday night session each month. Hacking would of course still be allowed but the first few hours would be quiet during the talks.

It could be a good opportunity to expose Hackerspace to more people, and to expose our members to the talks. Hopefully having one quiet hack session out of 8 each month wouldn't be too much of a sacrifice.

Very keen to know peoples thoughts.

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[kira...@gmail.com]

Great, terrific, wonderful idea!!!!

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[Fee Plumley]

absolutely, great synergy & many crossover members too. tick.

[Robert Hart]

I agree too

Generally anything Kim's is involved in is worth supporting, his work in the open source community, wireless, amateur radio and many other community activities are very close to the hackerspace spirit.   Also it would be good to have the odd speaker or presentation at Hackerspace anyway.

Robert 

[Jamie Mackenzie]

Great idea.

[Joel Stanley]

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Steven Pickles <thatp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very keen to know peoples thoughts.

As an attendee of both, I think it's a great idea.

Joel

[Cameron]

Given the space it wouldn't it be possible to have the talks and not so
much worry about noise?

I'm sure the tech talks would be something Jana would be interested in
hearing/supporting too.

[Steven Pickles]

If you mean having the talks somewhere like the boardroom? I'd rather promote crossover by having them in the same space. Chairs at the front for sitting and listening, and tables at the back for hacking.

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[Jamie Mackenzie]

I propose we call that arrangement the geek-mullet. Business at the front, party at the back!

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[Cameron]

When I can english, yes. I was just merely pointing out an option.

On 7/05/13 11:55 PM, Steven Pickles wrote:

If you mean having the talks somewhere like the boardroom? I'd rather promote crossover by having them in the same space. Chairs at the front for sitting and listening, and tables at the back for hacking.

pix

On 7 May 2013 16:34, Cameron <cameron...@gmail.com> wrote:

Given the space it wouldn't it be possible to have the talks and not so much worry about noise?

I'm sure the tech talks would be something Jana would be interested in hearing/supporting too.

On Tue May  7 10:28:25 2013, Joel Stanley wrote:

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Steven Pickles <thatp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very keen to know peoples thoughts.

As an attendee of both, I think it's a great idea.

Joel

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[Heidi Angove]

Couldn't agree with Jamie more ;-) the geek mullet.. I love it!

[Kim Hawtin]

Hi folks,

Wow! With that positive feedback, I'd like to move things along a bit, given that we are scheduled to have a tech meet next week according to our fourth Thursday routine. However, if as suggested we run with the last Wednesday of the month at HackerSpace, that would make it the 29th. I'd like to get an announcement out soonish.

Thoughts?

regards,

Kim

PS - not sure about the geek-mullet label, but each to their own =p

[Steven Pickles]

Hey Kim,

Based on the very positive reaction, I'm happy for you to go ahead with advertising Hackerspace as the venue for the next Tech Talk.

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