[group-organizers] meeting locations

[Ryan Freckleton]

at PySprings we usually do the same place about 90% of the time. The
advantages are that we know the venue, where all the equipment is, it's
guaranteed to be quiet, etc.

Moving around tends to bring new people in and we sometimes run into issues
with noise and equipment. So there are advantages to both.

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--Ryan E. Freckleton

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Mathieu Leduc-Hamel <marrakis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At Montreal-Python, we are switching from a place to another at each meetup
> but we are trying to have one place we are always going back and it's at
> the university. We don't want to be identified as the group that is always
> meeting at the google/shopify/[name your company there] offices and i think
> it is also super important to change your location cause it allow you to
> reach other peoples that you might now reach by staying at the same place.
>
> And try also to diverse the kind of venues. Reaching software companies is
> great, but it is important also to reach students, people from the game
> industry, open data, etc...
>
> But yeah it is super convenient to have base camp and the university gave
> us this possibility and i think it is wonderful cause there is nothing more
> neutral then the university !
>
>
>
> Le lun. 1 juin 2015 à 13:06, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> a écrit :
>
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > open job reqs in Seattle, with rumors that number will increase to 2000
> > > with the new campus coming on line in December. We consciously don't
> want
> > > to be perceived as a conduit for Facebook's hiring. We try to meet at
> > > Facebook at most once a quarter.
> > >
> >
> > Speaking of which, lately I've taken to spamming recruiters who contact
> me
> > via Linkedin and elsewhere to let them know that I'm happy with my job
> and
> > they should consider contacting chipy-organizers (or other groups as
> > appropriate) to see about sponsoring the group in some way. I have no
> idea
> > if this has worked, but maybe it will one day.
> >
> > I think I have it a little easier with perception with respect to project
> > nights and office hours that I run in that I deflect recruiters to the
> user
> > group meetings where more recruiting activity goes on. I took a page from
> > one of the NYC studies group where they did something similar.
> >
> > oh and natch I'm not moving my hackerspace office hours around. If I did
> it
> > wouldn't be the same thing and someone else at the hackerspace would have
> > office hours.
> >
> > I like the Braintree office in that they are in the Merchandise Mart. For
> > those of you not in Chicago, the building is connected by a walkway to a
> > brownline stop and it's in the loop, a 15 minute walk from the metra
> > stations, near by parking garages. And since it is a fancy modern
> building
> > (these days), it has easy accessibility. I appreciate that compared to my
> > hackerspace -- we are in an older industrial building and have no
> elevator
> > and people with mobility problems have trouble.
> >
> >
> > --
> > shekay at pobox.com
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