Organize Hacktoberfest Meetup

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Organize Hacktoberfest Meetup #64

Closed Tjzabel closed 6 years ago

Tjzabel commented 6 years ago

Hacktoberfest is coming!

...What is it?

For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is a month-long event with GitHub and DigitalOcean aimed to get more open source contributions on GitHub.

We should think about whether or not we want to have a hacktoberfest meetup at some point during October. A Saturday/Sunday hack session would be a great way to get more involvement with the club, and get to know some of the members.

Here is some good information DigitalOcean has laid out on how to create a Hacktoberfest meetup.

Also, it may be a good time to use some of our Mozilla pizza money.

ct-martin commented 6 years ago

As a note, we have a meeting set aside for Hacktoberfest in #44 (October 5th). I second that this would be a good chance to use the pizza money. If we're looking to do something outside of a meeting, we should also consider #39 (casual coding sessions) for continuing this longer-term.

jwflory commented 6 years ago

Yes. I would really like to use that pizza money. :grinning:

jwflory commented 6 years ago

Do we want to make this part of our project collaboration night meeting this Friday?

jwflory commented 6 years ago

@jibby0 Could you write the upcoming week's email announcement since you are taking lead on this week's presentation?

icflournoy commented 6 years ago

2018-10-10 Eboard Meeting

Discussion

We are lacking the bandwidth to arrange something this weekend (13th/14th), and the following weekend is Brick City, so we are looking at October 27th/28th for a Hacktoberfest Meetup. This would lead nicely into #39 for project collaboration nights as a recurring thing throughout November/December.

We can book Javas, Artesanos, Midight Oil, Crossroads...etc.

Action Items

Next eboard meeting (2018-10-17) we should decide on a date/time and a room for this Hacktoberfest meetup

jwflory commented 6 years ago

To clarify, this ticket is for something more than our last meeting topic? Would it be better to pilot this under project collaboration nights (#39)?

icflournoy commented 6 years ago

2018-10-17 Eboard Meeting

Decided on a time 1-3PM @ Java's on Oct 27th
Only @ct-martin and @jrtechs are available
EMS event has been approved
action @icflournoy will include a note in this weeks' general meeting email
action @jrtechs will send a separate email next week

icflournoy commented 6 years ago

2018-10-24 Eboard Meeting

action @jrtechs to mention it in this week's email
action @jrtechs will post an annoucement closer to the weekend

Tjzabel commented 6 years ago

The hacktoberfest meeting took place last weekend. @jrtechs would you want to post a synopsis of what went on over the weekend as a closing remark?

jrtechs commented 6 years ago

We had a total of three people: myself, @ct-martin and my roommate. Low turnout was largely due to bad timing of the event since most of our eboard was out of town, it was raining, and danny hacks was going on. In the future we should send out a poll of the club to figure out when the most amount of people would be available.

Java Wally's is a perfect location for events like these, there was plenty of space. Coffee was good :+1:

I think that continuing this in the future would be a good idea because it would allow us to push for more projects since we would be able to sit down with people and on-board them into projects. I only say that since TigerOS is the only project with dedicated meeting time.

Tjzabel commented 6 years ago

@jrtechs great! This is a good baseline to go off on. Now we know how to have a good event in the future :+1:

icflournoy commented 6 years ago

2018-10-31 Eboard Meeting

Issue resolved See https://github.com/RITlug/tasks/issues/39 for future collaboration events.