[Chennaipy] Points from the discussion after the February Meetup

Mon Mar 2 05:30:46 CET 2015

Thank you James suggestions. Kindly find below my comments.

- I noticed a lot of confusion on meetup.com and in the mailing list about
the meetup and the workshop.  Should we hold workshops on different days
than the meetup to help avoid confusion between the two?

- As of now Chennaipy meetup is happening on last Saturday of the month.
Can we have workshop on IInd Saturday or IInd Sunday of the month?

- Out of 35 people who registered for the workshop, only 14 showed up.  How
can we hold people accountable so they don't block others on the waiting
list who would have come?  Someone suggested a registration fee. Perhaps it
could also be a deposit that you get back after you show up so that it
serves as a "no-show fine".

- I agree with this suggestion. This will help us spread more knowledge.

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:41 PM, James Mortensen <james.mortensen at synclio.com
> wrote:

> Here are some suggestions I have to help improve the experience at
> workshops and meetups:
>
> - Presenters, please don't use blue font on black background. It is
> incredibly difficult to read.  Instead, stick to lighter, high-contrast
> font colors.
>
> - I noticed a lot of confusion on meetup.com and in the mailing list
> about the meetup and the workshop.  Should we hold workshops on different
> days than the meetup to help avoid confusion between the two?
>
> - Out of 35 people who registered for the workshop, only 14 showed up.
> How can we hold people accountable so they don't block others on the
> waiting list who would have come?  Someone suggested a registration fee.
> Perhaps it could also be a deposit that you get back after you show up so
> that it serves as a "no-show fine".
>
> - What is a better way to handle workshop registration?  We used a Google
> Form for Saturday's workshop.
>
> This is a great community, and I got a lot of positive feedback from
> people, both in our office and in the community, who attended.  Some have
> expressed interest in another workshop.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> James
> On Mar 1, 2015 7:45 PM, "Shrayas rajagopal" <shrayasr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> February 28th was great! We conducted our first workshop[1] and had a
>> great meetup after. The talks in the meetup were as usual very varied
>> and different. The diversity in the group shows in the talks month on
>> month. At the end of the meetup on the way back, I always feel humbled
>> to be a part of such a great community.
>>
>> A bunch of us actually stayed behind after the meetup and we came upon
>> a few things that we'd like to do. Here is what we came up with (All
>> points up for discussion):
>>
>> # Experimenting with a different timing for the meetup
>>
>> Priority: High
>>
>> There seems to be some concern from the people who have either college
>> or work about the meetup being on Saturdays. We've received mails that
>> people really would like to be a part of it but they aren't able to
>> since it is pretty inconvenient being on a Saturday. So there was a
>> proposal to move it to the last Sunday of the month instead of the
>> Saturday.
>>
>> The unanimous decision on this was that it should be tried. Therefore
>> we decided that we will try in the March meetup. There was also an
>> additional suggestion of alternating this, i.e. having one month's
>> meetup on the last saturday and the next month's meetup on the last
>> Sunday.
>>
>> # A video editing team
>>
>> Priority: High
>>
>> This team will consist of people who will be in charge of collating,
>> editing and posting the videos online. Vijay did this for all the
>> videos last time and his effort is much appreciated. Many people
>> expressed their intentions on doing this. Karthik[2] has expressed his
>> intentions on leading this.
>>
>> # A Chennaipy blog
>>
>> Priority: High
>>
>> Let us start churning out content from Chennaipy. We have already
>> started doing this with the videos but we can get more serious with
>> blog posts from people in the community. This will also help people to
>> get out of their shyness zone. Most of the talks that we are
>> privileged to listen to would be *great* as blog posts. One that comes
>> to the top of my mind is Vengat's talk on controlling your computer
>> with Kivy. There have been other absolutely amazing talks in the past
>> that are well worthy of blog posts. This additionally would also bring
>> exposure to the various people writing these posts.
>>
>> # Logo for Chennaipy
>>
>> Priority: High
>>
>> Chennaipy has been around for a long long time and we still don't have
>> anything that identifies us. So we thought its about time we had
>> something like that. So here is announcing a logo contest (details
>> will be sent in another mail). Let us aim to have a logo before the
>> next meetup. Maybe some swag too!
>>
>> # Volunteers for conducting and organizing forthcoming workshops
>>
>> Priority: High
>>
>> Workshops clearly are something that works. I propose having a Python
>> 101 workshop every 6 months (at least) to make the newcomers feel
>> welcome. I think that is a good timeframe to do these workshops. Apart
>> from that, from the poll[4] that we conducted earlier, the majority of
>> them spoke about wanting to dive deeper into python. This warrants
>> having people who know this kind of stuff and I'm sure that there are
>> a great sum of such people in our community. We request you to
>> volunteer to conduct such workshops.
>>
>> Please note however that you dont have to be a "big shot" in order to
>> come forward to organize a workshop. You just need to be thorough in
>> what you already know. What you know, dozens of people might not know
>> in the community.
>>
>> # List of previously done talks
>>
>> Priority: Medium
>>
>> It would be great if we could maintain a list of previously done talks
>> in Chennaipy. I'm unsure how back in time we could go for this? Since
>> Vijay and the others have been running the meetup since about 3 years
>> now, there have been a *lot* of talks done - You should check out the
>> mailing list archives for a good idea. Apart from that this is a good
>> thing to have on the website for people to get a sense of what kind of
>> talks have been done at Chennaipy
>>
>> # Transcription of talks
>>
>> Priority: Low
>>
>> The some of us who have everything in the right places and everything
>> working should be really grateful. There are a good sum of people who
>> dont have the same luxuries that we do - Some of them are severely
>> hearing impaired or even deaf all together but that doesn't stop them
>> from doing the same things that we do. One of the people I know -
>> Bharat[3] (from bangalore) is one such person but that doesn't make
>> him any less that any of us. He is a really nice person and does some
>> great work as well. He inspired me to want to Transcribe my talk so
>> that he and others like him would benefit from it. We definitely don't
>> generate enough traffic yet to say that we definitely _are_ helping
>> people but it is a great thing to have _in case_ people look for it.
>>
>> The priority on this however is Low. We have other things to achieve
>> in the bag as well. But I urge anyone as and when they get time to
>> take an hour out and transcribe a talk from our previous meetup
>> videos.
>>
>> ________________________
>>
>> These are some of the topics that we spoke about after the meetup.
>> Please feel free to add any points to this in case I missed out on
>> anything. Really exciting to be a part of this great growing
>> community. Looking forward
>>
>> ---
>> Footnotes:
>> [1]: http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/polls/1194231/
>> [2]: https://twitter.com/argvk
>> [3]: https://twitter.com/bsbarkur
>> [4]: http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/polls/1194231/
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