[Robotgroup] Idea for more members

[Denise Scioli]

The multipurpose room at The Heritage is perfect for presentations.  There is a scroll down screen available, power in the center of the room on the floor perfect for a table and equipment, and we can have no tables in there and just put chairs and put plenty of people. This room is the one we have been having the basic stamp class in. There is no problem doing this. I just need a heads up so that we can have the chairs set up ahead of time, especially if I have to go off property with the residents for an outing.



Denise

> From: ceo at nurve.net
> To: robotgroup at puremagic.com
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:54:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Idea for more members
> 
> I am just thinking real simple at first, so the "option" is there, someone 
> wants to give a talk about programming the AVR, or this or that, they post 
> an abstract to the group, see if people are interested then pick a meeting 
> day to do it. As it catches momentum, then I think thru word of mouth alone 
> robot group members can just ask people they know that are working on cool 
> things once in a while or expert at something if they want to do a little 
> presentation, tutorial, 3-10 people kind of thing. I don't think we need to 
> go hunt down speakers and manage it all at this point, that's definitely 
> time consuming. I think just within the group and contacts of the group 
> should be more than enough to get some very technical and interesting talks 
> that have actual use for other members both for fun and professionally.
> 
> Andre'
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vern Graner" <vern at txis.com>
> To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Idea for more members
> 
> 
> Eric Lundquist wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I'm happy to try something new. One of the issues is how do we get the
> word out that we have a featured speaker? Also, the available seating
> might be an issue...
> 
> It occurs to me that if we were to move the tables (maybe place in the
> hallway, or stack them) we could place chairs only to make the room more
> compatible with a "seminar" format. I would have to check w/Denise to
> see if we could do this.
> 
> Also, there is a 2nd room that has a projector screen and no "regular"
> tables in it. It might be possible to use that room for the speaker..?
> again, I would have to check with Denise.
> 
> I recall Eric working his butt off trying to arrange for speakers to
> come out. He has voiced his opinion above that its a so/so proposition.
> Sometimes it works (you get a good speaker and a good crowd) other
> times... not so much..
> 
> Of course, the old Robohut(tm) didn't really lend itself to a typical
> presentation. There really was no good way to get everyone a good view
> of the "stage" areas with the giant workbench smack-dab in the middle.. :)
> 
> Anyway, I'm happy to help test this theory as long as its OK with
> Heritage/Denise however, I don't have bandwidth to chase this down
> myself so someone other than me would have to be the lead on this.
> 
> Vern
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