search

NorthWalesTech / Community

North Wales Tech Community
http://northwales.tech/
13 stars 3 forks source link

Java Talk by Andres Almiray #65

Open carwyn opened 7 years ago

carwyn commented 7 years ago

From @jonbullock in #42

I put Andres Almiray in contact with the Manchester Java Community and he's coming over to do a talk in August: https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterUK-Java-Community/events/238223376/

He indicated he was going to stay for a few days... is it worth asking if he'd come and do a talk at NWT as well?

Proposed Date: Aug 30th or Sept 1st 7pm to 9pm Location: TBD Considerations: Byw a Bod Project Conference is on Sept 1st in Pontio PL2, not sure what time yet.

carwyn commented 7 years ago

@tamslinn likes the idea of "Java libraries you can't afford to miss". @davehun and @robshep likely to be interested in this.

Won't let me assign this to you @jonbullock

jonbullock commented 7 years ago

I'm sure GitHub has changed their security system recently, I had to grant users write access to the repo to enable this.

robshep commented 7 years ago

hooray for "Java libraries you can't afford to miss", not 'cos you can't assign to JB! :)

carwyn commented 7 years ago

Aha, adding the contributors team as read only to the repo did it (of course!?). Will make it write access, was just curious :)

jonbullock commented 7 years ago

Just heard back from Andres, he's not travelling over to Manchester now, he's doing a remote session instead.

Oh well, maybe next time.

tamslinn commented 7 years ago

Oh that's a shame I was looking forward to that! Will you be going to the remote session? Would be interesting to see how it works and if that would work for NWT sometime too.

jonbullock commented 7 years ago

Yeah I'll probably head over for the session. I was going to see how it works for them first as I'm sure he'd be up for a remote session for NWT as he's pushing these on Twitter at the moment.

tamslinn commented 7 years ago

Fab that sounds sensible. If remote sessions work well that opens doors. Do you know which topic they picked by the way? I seem to recall there was a poll.

jonbullock commented 7 years ago

Members are still voting: https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterUK-Java-Community/polls/1249674/ but the Java libs one is in the lead still.

Oh, I've just noticed the NWT MicroBit event is on the same night!

tamslinn commented 7 years ago

Oh bother hadn't noticed that :(

Java libs would be my choice too

carwyn commented 7 years ago

Oops, we can play the stream in CoWork at the same time as the Micro:bit workshop, the area is big enough.

tamslinn commented 7 years ago

I think see how a remote session works for MJC and if it's good try one of our own? Otherwise I'll be torn!

carwyn commented 7 years ago

We've been using remote Hangouts for the Fusion 360 workshops, as long as the speaker has a stable connection they work really well.

jonbullock commented 7 years ago

Yeah I was thinking the same. We could run a survey for the talk as well if we wanted. Might encourage more participation if you get a say in the talk given.

I'll go along and see how it goes, I can't not go now as I was the instigator :) Shame though as I would have liked an excuse to have a play with my micro:bit, anyway have fun!

carwyn commented 7 years ago

Hoping to make the BYOD events a regular thing .. there will be more Micro:bits :) pick a Thursday in September @jonbullock and we'll arrange it specially for you ;)

jonbullock commented 6 years ago

I'll get in touch with Andres again to ask about doing a remote session this year... any suggestions on potential months I can put to him?