[Robotgroup] Idea for more members

[Andre Lamothe]

Hmm, well, it was 4-5 years ago looks like, maybe another iteration might 
work, plus if there were another room available on those nights, that would 
work out well. And of course picking topics that the majority are interested 
in or can leverage for products.

Andre'



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Lundquist" <roboenator at gmail.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Idea for more members


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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