[Discussion] Please introduce yourself!

nuke-web3 commented 5 years ago

:wave: Hey Organizers!

I would love to get to know some of my peers here. So excited to join this community! :tada:

In light of that, I thought it might be a good icebreaker to know why we are all here... :grin:

What interested you in becoming a chapter organizer? What do you want to do with your local community? What do you see as the vision and mission for your chapter?

For Me:

What interested you in becoming a chapter organizer?

I love hosting events to evangelize and educate others on some of the amazing tools that are starting to become much more approachable and viable as real Web 3.0 foundational tools. Protocol Labs is doing some great things in this space to be sure :rocket:

What do you want to do with your local community?

Inspire and help get people on boarded to these new tools. I would like to grow our community and promote regular gatherings to work together on a common mission. Remote collaboration is great, but local chapters allow for (more valuable IMO) in person meetups. I hope to have this group use these tools to start or join projects that turn into a way to make living - a way to sustain this project with the skills it produces.

What do you see as the vision and mission for your chapter?

got some ideas here: https://github.com/ProtoSchool/Denver

terichadbourne commented 5 years ago

I'm not a chapter organizer, but wanted to introduce myself as a resource for all of you!

I'm a Community Manager at Protocol Labs, where one of my most important roles is as a co-maintainer of ProtoSchool along with @mikeal. Before becoming a web developer, I studied education and spent many years planning conferences for web developers and designers, then transitioned into developer advocacy. I first heard about the decentralized web through my involvement with the Offline First community. I'm a co-organizer of Offline Camp, a tech retreat meant to bring together the community focused on making apps work in all network conditions.

As someone who started coding just a few years ago and is quite new to decentralized technologies, I'm focused on ensuring that ProtoSchool remains beginner-friendly and welcoming to people of diverse backgrounds (coding and otherwise).

Part of my job is to make the experience of being a chapter organizer as easy as possible, so please feel free to share your suggestions on our processes and documentation.

bobjiang commented 5 years ago

Hi Organizers,

First of all, I would like to introduce myself a bit. I am Bob Jiang, founder of HiBlock.one community, ambassador of Gitcoin.co and also a Certified Scrum Trainer from Scrum Alliance.

What interested you in becoming a chapter organizer?

I am a community promoter since 2011, first as an Agile community advocator (mostly in China, also connect to worldwide), and second start to promote blockchain since Jan, 2018. I love blockchain and distributed technology, and I can see in the future, blockchain could help and be helped with community (included open source) a lot.

What do you want to do with your local community?

I'd like to make friends in community, and find the partner to run community together. For me I have other business to make life, so community is just part-time work (and I believe community should be part-time, interest based, and awarded fairly). So during community, I would like to explore how to keep a community long life.

What do you see as the vision and mission for your chapter?

Here is just mine, we could combine all organizers' together.

Connect blockchain technical people
Promote blockchain technique

kk3wong commented 5 years ago

Hi all, this is Kevin from Hong Kong. Nice to meet you all 😁

What interested you in becoming a chapter organizer?

We are currently running Hong Kong IPFS Community and Protoschool is just the perfect match for us to strengthen the community and help the interested parties to further understand how awesome all the things that Protocol Labs have been done.

What do you want to do with your local community?

Help and educate the public about the decentralized web's development and inspire people to learn and contribute to the community. We will hold regular meetups to take feedback and gather a group of enthusiast so we can work together and build a better community.

What do you see as the vision and mission for your chapter?

check out our repo: https://github.com/ProtoSchool/hong-kong

jimcal commented 5 years ago

Hi, this is Jim from Seattle. Nice to have this discussion thread to learn about each others.

What interested you in becoming a chapter organizer?

I am just getting into decentralized web and for most part an information consumer. A wise man told me that for my limited existence on planet earth, I should find my passion and start contributing and become a producer. I also got into community building and organizing events last year, and it gave me a bit more purpose in life outside of my family and work. I was inspired by Mikeal's talk and want to learn more, so I decided to learn while help building the community.

What do you want to do with your local community?

Hopefully by putting efforts to help organize events, and perhaps contribute here to learn about great ways to connect with members in other decentralized locations. Within my bubble, folks are curious about decentralized web, but not much organizing effort or collaboration happens beyond chatting over coffee or water fountains. I believe ProtoSchool is the venue to channel that curiosity and energy.

What do you see as the vision and mission for your chapter?

In Seattle chapter, I (@jimcal) hope to work with Cameron Wheeler (@zebul) to plant the seed by bootstrapping the beginning of ProtoSchool Seattle chapter, and to educate and grow the decentralized web community. If this resonates with you, we hope you can join us!

terichadbourne commented 5 years ago

@NukeManDan I took the liberty of shortening the title of this issue to make it fully readable while pinned. Hope you don't mind!

ProtoSchool / organizing