What Are You Doing Right Now
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I have a great relationship with all kinds of Vendors so getting them to come out and speak is the easy part. But places to host things is impossible. I don't work in a traditional office and most people refuse to drive outside of the city. So I can't do it at my house.
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@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Realistically, how much work is it to setup a Spicecorp/MangoBunch meeting? I don't know the amount of work that goes into, any ideas @Minion-Queen or @scottalanmiller ?
It's only easy because @Minion-Queen has unlimited access to sponsors and speakers. For people without those resources, it becomes a bit more difficult. It's easier now because many of us have been running them for years and know the processes.
This is a case where it might be wise to do somehting like what SW is now doing, where you can request assistance from HQ to get sponsors lined up for presenting at a local meeting.
That's what I was thinking... The venue I thought would be the easiest part, I assumed that getting the vendors to speak with a small group of people would be the most difficult.
If you are trying to have a few beers with friends and not have an IT meeting, as many SC events are, then it is easy. If you want to be able to talk and have a presentation, it gets really hard really quickly.
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The hardest is getting a venue that is both useful for people to hold a meeting but still allows the flexibility for things like alcohol to make the meeting things that people want to attend. The average venue is either a bar and useless for the first or an office that forbids the latter.
That's why in the DFW we finally settled on just using my house since I had a projection system and a full bar in it and we could handle 45 people pretty easily for a meeting and were centrally located. Every other venue either couldn't have alcohol, was expensive or could not have people hear each other or be in a group.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Realistically, how much work is it to setup a Spicecorp/MangoBunch meeting? I don't know the amount of work that goes into, any ideas @Minion-Queen or @scottalanmiller ?
It's only easy because @Minion-Queen has unlimited access to sponsors and speakers. For people without those resources, it becomes a bit more difficult. It's easier now because many of us have been running them for years and know the processes.
This is a case where it might be wise to do somehting like what SW is now doing, where you can request assistance from HQ to get sponsors lined up for presenting at a local meeting.
That's what I was thinking... The venue I thought would be the easiest part, I assumed that getting the vendors to speak with a small group of people would be the most difficult.
If you are trying to have a few beers with friends and not have an IT meeting, as many SC events are, then it is easy. If you want to be able to talk and have a presentation, it gets really hard really quickly.
Ah maybe that is where my disconnect is. I probably wouldn't go to these meetings to hang out and drink. I would go to talk with other IT people and vendors about how they do things or what they have to offer.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Realistically, how much work is it to setup a Spicecorp/MangoBunch meeting? I don't know the amount of work that goes into, any ideas @Minion-Queen or @scottalanmiller ?
It's only easy because @Minion-Queen has unlimited access to sponsors and speakers. For people without those resources, it becomes a bit more difficult. It's easier now because many of us have been running them for years and know the processes.
This is a case where it might be wise to do somehting like what SW is now doing, where you can request assistance from HQ to get sponsors lined up for presenting at a local meeting.
That's what I was thinking... The venue I thought would be the easiest part, I assumed that getting the vendors to speak with a small group of people would be the most difficult.
If you are trying to have a few beers with friends and not have an IT meeting, as many SC events are, then it is easy. If you want to be able to talk and have a presentation, it gets really hard really quickly.
Ah maybe that is where my disconnect is. I probably wouldn't go to these meetings to hang out and drink. I would go to talk with other IT people and vendors about how they do things or what they have to offer.
Which would make finding a venue pretty hard. You need a company to sponsor to do that.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Realistically, how much work is it to setup a Spicecorp/MangoBunch meeting? I don't know the amount of work that goes into, any ideas @Minion-Queen or @scottalanmiller ?
It's only easy because @Minion-Queen has unlimited access to sponsors and speakers. For people without those resources, it becomes a bit more difficult. It's easier now because many of us have been running them for years and know the processes.
This is a case where it might be wise to do somehting like what SW is now doing, where you can request assistance from HQ to get sponsors lined up for presenting at a local meeting.
That's what I was thinking... The venue I thought would be the easiest part, I assumed that getting the vendors to speak with a small group of people would be the most difficult.
If you are trying to have a few beers with friends and not have an IT meeting, as many SC events are, then it is easy. If you want to be able to talk and have a presentation, it gets really hard really quickly.
Ah maybe that is where my disconnect is. I probably wouldn't go to these meetings to hang out and drink. I would go to talk with other IT people and vendors about how they do things or what they have to offer.
@scottalanmiller
In St. Louis, we have enough members with office space where beer is allowed that we handle holding our meetings in those places.@coliver
I am going to chill out and talk with fellow IT people. I am not going to some boring meeting to listen to a spiel. Yes, we (St. Louis) still have a vendor sponsor for all of our meetings and they generally cover food and drinks and give a short presentation. But the entire point of a SpiceCorp is that it is a user group. Not a vendor marketing group. -
Getting a new Linux Mint jump box set up in the lab. Hopefully going to have users in the lab by later today.
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@scottalanmiller You gotta stop inviting ppl to my house without asking first...
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller You gotta stop inviting ppl to my house without asking first...
Haha, oh man that's good.
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Too late, we know where the party is now!
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Lots of emails today.... will they ever end?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Lots of emails today.... will they ever end?
Yes, at precisely 12:00 tonight.*
*this is not a guarantee that there will not also be emails tomorrow.
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@art_of_shred said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Lots of emails today.... will they ever end?
Yes, at precisely 12:00 tonight.*
*this is not a guarantee that there will not also be emails tomorrow.
That's not when you are going to cut the coax to the house?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Lots of emails today.... will they ever end?
I bet you know someone there who could frighten the exchange server into ceasing to operate for an hour
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@MattSpeller That sounds amazing about now.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@MattSpeller That sounds amazing about now.
@scottalanmiller @ntgGene @art_of_shred
You heard the lady, get on it
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We already use Office 365, what more do you want?
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@dominica is finally playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic!!
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Now the seven year old and my wife are playing Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-3 together. We have two Steam Controllers now, so we can do that stuff.
