[sudo-discuss] How do we help SudoRoom become more project-based?

[Romy Ilano]

T'Da!

the 5 minutes of Fame event on March 1st is officially in action

I made a cheesy Facebook Events page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/723568701146101/

Let's do this!



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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com



On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Steve Leach <stevenaleach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds great, personally I like the idea of having to get pull a
> presentable survey of my project together every now and then, it would be a
> useful exercise.
>
> On Feb 7, 2017 1:48 PM, "Romy Ilano" <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> This is wonderful! I would love to help out with the 5minutes of Fame at
>> SudoRoom.
>>
>>
>> I'll spread the word as well. The project-based show and tell wouldn't
>> necessarily exclude people who are doing teaching events either - they
>> could also do a presentation on how they got a cool Women Who Code event
>> started, etc.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to this!
>>
>> Best.
>>
>> Romy
>>
>>
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> Romy Ilano
>> romy at snowyla.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey!
>>>>
>>>> I look back on my involvement in SudoRoom and Noisebridge and *I was
>>>> most happy and having fun bouncing off ideas with people when working on
>>>> projects.* This also contributed the most fun to SudoRoom and shows
>>>> what is unique about the space.
>>>>
>>>> I got sucked into a bunch of interesting events, especially around
>>>> teaching and helping lead Women Who Code meetups. That was very fun! I
>>>> socialized with a lot of cool people and had good times. There were nice
>>>> conversations.
>>>>
>>>> But these kinds of activities ultimately did not produce any tangible
>>>> results that I could build upon. I am not interested in being an event
>>>> planner or a teacher, although those are noble activities!
>>>>
>>>> *How can we help make SudoRoom a bit more project-based? *By putting
>>>> new potential members on the path to creating projects, i think this would
>>>> help with our retention.
>>>>
>>>> I keep mentioning again and again to new people that it's not so much
>>>> fitting in with the people, having people hug you or going to events where
>>>> everyone looks exactly like you that's important... meetups are all over
>>>> the bay area. it's really the projects that suck people in and help them
>>>> add diversity to the space.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Some of us had been thinking about having a 5 minutes of fame every
>>> month/week where people can show their projects. Maybe we could do that and
>>> encourage that presenters invite other people to work with them?
>>>
>>> How about first wednesday's? Every first wednesday of the month we have
>>> a 5mof?
>>>
>>> Noisebridge has 5mof on third Thursday's.
>>>
>>> Who wants to help make the first sudo room 5mof happen on Wednesday
>>> March 1st?
>>>
>>> Here's how folks can help:
>>>
>>> * INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
>>> * Sign up for a 5 minute spot to show / talk about something!
>>> ** It can be anything! Just think of this as show and tell, with the
>>> show part being optional :)
>>> * Sign up to help set up audio and video in advance
>>> * Sign up to help set up chairs / pews before the event and/or move them
>>> away after
>>> * Bring food, snacks or drinks for sharing
>>> * Bring plates, bowls, cups or cutlery (we have some but not enough)
>>>
>>> I put a tentative schedule here:
>>>
>>> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF
>>>
>>> Just reply in this thread if you want to help out or present!
>>>
>>> --
>>> marc/juul
>>>
>>
>>
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