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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Don Sheu <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >>> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150601/e19021e0/attachment.html >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Group-Organizers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150601/b1ce27eb/attachment.html >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Group-Organizers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150601/d7f942cd/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150602/f1259b28/attachment.sig> _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
