[group-organizers] meeting locations

Nicholas H.Tollervey ntoll at ntoll.org
Tue Jun 2 09:45:45 CEST 2015


In London the Python Dojo moves around since we have quite a number of
companies who want to sponsor the event (as someone else pointed out,
it's a great "come work for us" type advert). Sponsorship is simply
giving us the room and providing pizza and beer pre-coding exercises.

It's not too onerous a task and we (the "cat herders" i.e. organisers)
simply keep a shared Google spreadsheet to plan ahead.

N.

On 02/06/15 03:34, Ryan Freckleton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> =====
> --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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