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This is a place to organize talks and sketch out a schedule for VTLUUG in 2017
== Goals ==
The general idea is to not have many '''Social Meetings''', in order to keep up interest
of membership, and make it worth people's time. Also, I don't want to be president next year,
and no-one else does, either, so we need people to do stuff.
In general, we should have meetings every week; about half-an-hour should be dedicated to news,
club updates, and business. The rest of the meeting (1 to 2 hours) should be dedicated to the talk.
=== Talks ===
I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:
* 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
** ideally, free food should be provided
** [[user:andreim|aam's]] facebook talk in 2016 was good
** Booz-Allen talk was also good
* 1 "beginners" or intro talk to some subject
** e.g.
*** Intro to LaTeX
*** Intro to vimscript/vim
*** Beginners guide to Ubuntu Mate
**** Talk about how to replace MS word with LO, etc
** These should be provided by members of the club
** Perhaps put some effort into reaching out for the more beginner-friendly ones
** Focus should be on free software rather than technologies (IPv6) or programming languages
* 1 "advanced" or project talk
** These can be by members or alumni, but also by non-memembers
** not expected to be free-software focused (although prefered)
** [[user:btreecat|btreecat's]] talk on UAV was a great example of this, as was nluther's discussion of his thesis project
Non-talk meetings, or '''Social Meetings''' should have a call-for-talks the week before, to get short presentations by members. Otherwise, they'll just be discussions of news, tech, and FOSS, or quick tutorials on things people ask
questions about.
=== Events ===
I'd like to have at least 3 events during the semester (about 1 every month), outside of talks.
These should be about free software, open data, or anything else interesting.
Ideas:
* [[Installfest]] (we already have 1 each semester)
* [[OSM Day]]
* [[Keysigning Party]]
* Hackathons
* Some event advocating for free software or teaching people about it, in a context besides the Installfest
We should also make an effort to attend events hosted by other entities, and have a table, like:
* [[SELF]]
* [[gp:Gobblerfest|Gobblerfest]]
* SEC Engineering Week
* That thing for [[gp:Galileo|Galileo]]/Hypatia at the beginning of the year
==Talks People Want==
==Talks People are Willing to Give==
== Companies that may be willing to give talks ==
* Facebook -- [[user:andreim|aam]] is an alum who works here; lots of people came and got interviews from this
* OnyxPoint -- CEO asked [[user:echarlie|echarlie]] when would be a good time to talk/recruit
* Booz-Allen had some folks come by to give talks last year
* [[gp:Randy Marchany|Randy]] from the ITSO would give a talk if we asked him (this barely counts for this category)
*
== Schedule: Fall 2017 ==
=== September ===
* 2017-09-07 Pre-gobbler/installfest planning meeting (off-campus)
* 2017-09-08 Gobblerfest
* 2017-09-10 Installfest (speculated)
* 2017-09-14 Some talk
* 2017-09-21 Industry Talk?
* 2017-09-28 Social Meeting
=== October ===
* 2017-10-05
* 2017-10-12
* 2017-10-19
* 2017-10-26
This would be a good month to have an [[OSM day]]; perhaps around the 14
I'd also like to have OnyxPoint in this month, if possible
=== November ===
* 2017-11-02
* 2017-11-09
* 2017-11-16
* 2017-11-30
Probably the month to have the keysigning, and thus a GPG talk
=== December ===
* 2017-12-07
* 2017-12-14 Reading Day; Social off-campus meeting?
== Goals ==
The general idea is to not have many '''Social Meetings''', in order to keep up interest
of membership, and make it worth people's time. Also, I don't want to be president next year,
and no-one else does, either, so we need people to do stuff.
In general, we should have meetings every week; about half-an-hour should be dedicated to news,
club updates, and business. The rest of the meeting (1 to 2 hours) should be dedicated to the talk.
=== Talks ===
I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:
* 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
** ideally, free food should be provided
** [[user:andreim|aam's]] facebook talk in 2016 was good
** Booz-Allen talk was also good
* 1 "beginners" or intro talk to some subject
** e.g.
*** Intro to LaTeX
*** Intro to vimscript/vim
*** Beginners guide to Ubuntu Mate
**** Talk about how to replace MS word with LO, etc
** These should be provided by members of the club
** Perhaps put some effort into reaching out for the more beginner-friendly ones
** Focus should be on free software rather than technologies (IPv6) or programming languages
* 1 "advanced" or project talk
** These can be by members or alumni, but also by non-memembers
** not expected to be free-software focused (although prefered)
** [[user:btreecat|btreecat's]] talk on UAV was a great example of this, as was nluther's discussion of his thesis project
Non-talk meetings, or '''Social Meetings''' should have a call-for-talks the week before, to get short presentations by members. Otherwise, they'll just be discussions of news, tech, and FOSS, or quick tutorials on things people ask
questions about.
=== Events ===
I'd like to have at least 3 events during the semester (about 1 every month), outside of talks.
These should be about free software, open data, or anything else interesting.
Ideas:
* [[Installfest]] (we already have 1 each semester)
* [[OSM Day]]
* [[Keysigning Party]]
* Hackathons
* Some event advocating for free software or teaching people about it, in a context besides the Installfest
We should also make an effort to attend events hosted by other entities, and have a table, like:
* [[SELF]]
* [[gp:Gobblerfest|Gobblerfest]]
* SEC Engineering Week
* That thing for [[gp:Galileo|Galileo]]/Hypatia at the beginning of the year
==Talks People Want==
==Talks People are Willing to Give==
== Companies that may be willing to give talks ==
* Facebook -- [[user:andreim|aam]] is an alum who works here; lots of people came and got interviews from this
* OnyxPoint -- CEO asked [[user:echarlie|echarlie]] when would be a good time to talk/recruit
* Booz-Allen had some folks come by to give talks last year
* [[gp:Randy Marchany|Randy]] from the ITSO would give a talk if we asked him (this barely counts for this category)
*
== Schedule: Fall 2017 ==
=== September ===
* 2017-09-07 Pre-gobbler/installfest planning meeting (off-campus)
* 2017-09-08 Gobblerfest
* 2017-09-10 Installfest (speculated)
* 2017-09-14 Some talk
* 2017-09-21 Industry Talk?
* 2017-09-28 Social Meeting
=== October ===
* 2017-10-05
* 2017-10-12
* 2017-10-19
* 2017-10-26
This would be a good month to have an [[OSM day]]; perhaps around the 14
I'd also like to have OnyxPoint in this month, if possible
=== November ===
* 2017-11-02
* 2017-11-09
* 2017-11-16
* 2017-11-30
Probably the month to have the keysigning, and thus a GPG talk
=== December ===
* 2017-12-07
* 2017-12-14 Reading Day; Social off-campus meeting?