[Robotgroup] Idea for more members

[Eric Lundquist]

We used to do this with mixed results.  Some talks were packed standing room
only and others had embarrassingly low turn out.  Mainly, it was a lot of
work to locate speakers who would commit to speaking to a small group on
Thursday night.

http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/PastPresentations

- Eric




On 4/9/08, Andre Lamothe <ceo at nurve.net> wrote:
>
> I am sure people have thought of this, but one thing about all the groups
> I
> have attended, IEEE, programming, game dev, whatever. They tend to have
> speakers fairly often talking about something, teaching a subject after or
> before the meeting. I know that the robot group is always trying to find
> ways to entice new members to join, so I think that this would be a really
> cool feature of the group?
>
> I was thinking maybe every other week a 20-30 mins PPT lecture/with PC if
> needed on "X" during the social time after all the what's going on and
> show
> and tell parts. This way, there would always be a semi-formal learning
> element to the meetings. Those that want to watch can, those that don't
> can
> socialize outside the room, so the speaker can have the floor. I bet there
> are tons of UT students working on cool projects, local company men that
> are
> nerds that would love to talk about their latest and greatest. And just,
> it
> would be cool to have little mini lectures on microcontrollers, .making a
> PCB, microsoft .Net development, mechanical engineering, materials,
> whatever. If it works out, it could be an every meeting part of the group,
> so everyone always learns something when they attend ---
>
> I would be willing to lecture on a number of tech topics for example.
>
> The ACC gamedev group does this for example here, and the rooms are always
> packed.
>
> Andre'
>
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