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Limassol Hackers #15

Open julianengel opened 7 years ago

elliotblackburn commented 7 years ago

It looks like you've got a great community going on in Limassol!

I have a few ideas of things you might be able to add to dig into your assessment a bit more and maybe find out some interesting things. They're just suggestions but I've listed them as questions below which you might want to consider and add:

Your community sounds so great, I love that you're engaging high schoolers and those doing A-Levels! You're going to lay some wonderful ground work for people as they attend more and more hackathons and get involved in other communities and such! πŸŽ‰ πŸ’―

julianengel commented 7 years ago

Hahaha, thank you, we're trying really hard!

Well, to address your questions, as to now, any member joining our community was actually a first-time hacker attending one of the previous events. They were introduced to the community at the hackathons, and then we looped them in right there. All our workshops are aimed at first time hackers and hackers with little experience. We look at different technologies such as HTML/CSS, Node, JavaScript, Python and such and do hands on projects to teach on those. We had a guest speaker last year and are looking to do more of those in the coming months.

We did promotion at high schools, and that's how people heard about the event. From there we then introduced them into the Ninja Hacks Fam!

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On 7 Apr 2017, at 6:57 PM, Elliot Blackburn notifications@github.com wrote:

It looks like you've got a great community going on in Limassol!

I have a few ideas of things you might be able to add to dig into your assessment a bit more and maybe find out some interesting things. They're just suggestions but I've listed them as questions below which you might want to consider and add:

Is the group intended for those who can already program, or do you try to work with people who are brand new to programming? If you try to work with them, what sort of content do you provide. You mentioned the workshops, what sort of things do you do in these? Do you spend time looking at new tech or bring in guests to teach people? How have you promoted the group so far to get to 50 members? Were they mostly friends or did you do some announcements at local high-schools? Your community sounds so great, I love that you're engaging high schoolers and those doing A-Levels! You're going to lay some wonderful ground work for people as they attend more and more hackathons and get involved in other communities and such! πŸŽ‰ πŸ’―

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elliotblackburn commented 7 years ago

Oh all of that sounds so good, I love that you're teaching good "first timer" tech as well like Node and Python!

It might be good to paste what you've written there into the assessment perhaps, so it's documented for the next campus expert who eventually fills your shoes in the future!

Can't wait to see what happens with your group, hackathons are a great way to kick off, I bet the ninja hack went down really well! πŸ˜ƒ