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- Retrospective on Last month's event
- Kevin Groat's talk on React/Redux
- Well attended (40 people/80 people responded)
- Topic was on Wyn's Tech Radar
- Pros:
- No attendance limit may have helped (continue going forward)
- Low rate of attrition (we expect 33%, we got high 40%'s)
- Cons:
- Internet went down
- Upcoming events
- Nara Kasbergen - Empathy as a Service
- Identified from WeSpeakToo.org
- NPR developer
- Diversity of topics and speakers!
- Survey attendees at the end
- Add to Wyn's tech topics.
- Wyn's Tech Topics
- Great comprehensive list
- Promote to members of TTDC.
- https://github.com/techtalkdc/Open-Governance/blob/master/topic-focus.md
- Solicit feedback from memberbase through e-mail
- TTDC Organizer Role definition
- Director - Doguhan
- Oversees operation
- Guides vision
- Guides topics
- Reviews Topic PR's
- TTDC MC duties
- Technical Director - Wyn
- Oversees technical vision
- Generates potential contacts
- Marketing outreach
- Reviews Topic PR's
- TTDC MC duties
- Organizer(s) - Jen & Pat
- Coordinate Speakers
- Book venue
- Organize food
- Member outreach
- TTDC MC duties
- Meeting Minutes
- Director - Doguhan
- Retrospective on last month's events (Docker Workshop & Kotlin)
- Docker workshop well attended with over 50 people
- Kotlin talk was 15 people. Full house actually (half the ATX)
- Lessons learned: Workshops during the weekday have the potential to have much better attendance than our weekend series.
- Docker was a very popular topic.
- Introductory material was well embraced.
- Wifi issues in the ATX with large audience.
- Passing out Feedback forms right after the talk.
- Survey Results and conclusions
- Discussion of upcoming events
- Kevin Groat scheduled for next month
- Nate Hessler moved
- Robbie Holmes follow up for July
- Node DC nodeschool workshop in August
- Robbie Holmes talking about using a different venue, DU has contacted him.
- Direction of Tech Talk DC
- We'd like to establish a vision of where the meetup is going
- Picking broad catagories that we can find talks for the rest of the year.
- Focus what the talks will be around can make it easier for us to find speakers.
- Wyn to create a draft list of catagories for the year.
- Suggestion of meetups where we can find speakers.
- Try to partner up with another meetup.
- Clearly define roles in the Meetup leadership
- Define the separate responsibilities of running the meetup
- Will let us know what needs to be covered.
- Allow us to transition leadership more smoothly.
- Pat Leong will define it.
- We need to figure out what we’re going to do for April, May, June.
- Schedule the regular meetup first
- Workshops are a bonus
- Sahil needs to reach out to someone in April: Bjorn Westergaard
- Bringing in known speakers?
- Coming up with a list of “known” speakers for April, May, June
- Jeff Harcourt
- Kate Rabinowitz
- CTO 1776
- Capitol One – James Patterson
- USDS - Robbie Holmes
- Roy Osherove
- Reginald Braithwaite
- Nathan Hessler
- Coming up with a list of “known” speakers for April, May, June
- Monitoring/polling the members to make sure we’re having the right amount of events
- Half of those who attend are new members, how to make them repeat members?
- Diversity
- Pat to reach out to Taylor and Lougenia
- Tech Talk DC Happy Hour
- After a meetup or as a regular event.
- What can we do to encourage organizer engagement?
- Topics are limited to language specific, section that is impacted by the topics, what’s useful in front-end development?
- Sahil suggests that we focus talks towards one topic so that everyone - whether member or organizer - is incentivized to attend more often, (hopefully) helping people to take ownership and stay engaged on a more regular basis
- Sean suggests making a poll and curating our speakers to the interests of the members.
- All organizers have access to the twitter account?
- Make sure that all of us can be responsible for what is said and what we follow/retweet.
- Tech Series (Speakers Jan, Feb, March)
- Thinking of doing a series of talks instead of just standard talks
- No single person speaking who is an “expert,” more of a panel discussion
- More of a book club
- Alex Hoffman wanted to do a Javascript talk in February.
- Docker workshop/series
- Workshops before the summer
- Workshops last year were in the summer, didn’t’ have a great turnout
- Make sure that we get the workshops out before summer for greater engagement.
- Consistency and focus of topics
- Member engagement
- Putting together a draft for the poll of members and the topics that they would like to learn about.
- 13th and L meetup location? We can learn more about the preference of members for location change based on the poll.
- Sponsors
- Engage more companies, transparency of how its being organized?
- Public slack channel where we can discuss how the meetup is being organized?
- Diversity
- Pat is doing research and is going to be reaching out to different members of the community to try and get speakers outside of our existing pool.