[group-organizers] meeting locations

[Ned Batchelder]

In Boston, we have the luxury of the Microsoft NERD center, which 
provides free space for tech events.  They get over-booked, and 
sometimes we try other spaces, like Akamai, which also has dedicated 
large-meeting space, and is very accommodating.  When we try more ad-hoc 
spaces at companies, we run into problems (what's the wifi password? Why 
is the cleaning crew running vacuums right now? how do we get to the 
bathrooms without a keycard?).  Also, with 120 attendees for 
presentations, it's hard to find companies that can host that many.

--Ned.

On 6/2/15 3:45 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
> 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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