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LNUG #73 - 23rd May 2018 #8

Closed admataz closed 6 years ago

admataz commented 6 years ago

Hello @lnug/organisers and @lnug/contributors

We are back at Condé Nast on 23rd May.

So far one talk confirmed - a couple others in the pipeline - let us know if there are any of you that want to tell a story.

Here is the checklist for this month - choose a task and put your name to it. or add any you think are needed - some of these will be covered by the arrangements with the venue.

Please have a read if the docs at https://github.com/lnug/event-planning - and ask here in the comments if you have any ideas or questions.

Checklist (pick a task!)

Pre Event

Last day checks (Monday before event)

On the Night

After the event

Anything else?

FabioAntunes commented 6 years ago

Count me in, I will help setting things up (beers and pizzas) and eventually anything else.

claireinez commented 6 years ago

I think I said I'd emcee this month! Which means I won't be able to tweet so someone else will have to do that this month plzzzz

FabioAntunes commented 6 years ago

I don't mind handling twitter 🐦

sielay commented 6 years ago

@admataz I need to confirm if I can make it, but I can have some lightning talk about using JSX (in NodeJS of course) to describe infrastructure of DevOps tasks (as a concept and working POC) https://github.com/react-ops/react-ops. What you think about it. It's too early for full talk about it.

admataz commented 6 years ago

@claireinez - great! Let me know if you need anything from me. I'm busy finalising the speakers - will confirm when that's done

@FabioAntunes - that's brilliant thank you.

Hey @sielay - it sounds like an awesome mad science idea - perfect for a lightning talk - is 5mins enough time? @claireinez is our emcee this month so best to coordinate with her around timing.

sielay commented 6 years ago

@admataz will be a max 5 minutes, will try to prepare a more devopsy example.

FabioAntunes commented 6 years ago

@admataz one thing that I noticed is that there's no meetup event created yet, should we be creating one? Should we consider next time, create the event earlier but only open the rsvp next to the date?

admataz commented 6 years ago

Thanks @FabioAntunes - it was on my list, but kept getting de-prioritised. Done now.

elischutze commented 6 years ago

I'd recommend removing the Meetup option to "bring guests" in your RSVP so that everyone has to sign up and input their Name + Surname individually

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Thanks @FabioAntunes https://github.com/FabioAntunes - it was on my list, but kept getting de-prioritised. Done now.

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admataz commented 6 years ago

Thanks @elischutze - quite right... I switched it off.

sielay commented 6 years ago

@admataz did anyone spoke already about using AWSMobile as a replacement for serverless or up? If not I can add briefly to my ⚡️ talk as it is somehow related. Still 5 minutes, not more.

arakno commented 6 years ago

I'll take care of receiving Pizza Food & Drink Area Maintenance.

Cheers

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admataz commented 6 years ago

@sielay - no I don't recall anything about AWSMobile specifically - sounds good

@arakno - great! thank you

admataz commented 6 years ago

@lnug/contributors - who else will be there on Wednesday?

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clarkie commented 6 years ago

I've managed to get my hands on a number of diversity sponsored tickets for ServerlessDays here in London (currently 8 remaining). These are kindly donated by https://twitter.com/mattjbatchelor

He's happy for us to advertise their availability.

The brief:

If you're interested in learning more about Serverless and are based anywhere near London, then there are tickets available:

When: 6th July Where: St Johns Hoxton More Info: https://london.serverlessdays.io/

Diversity

We're making a big push to make ServerlessDays one of the most diversity aware series of tech conferences. So even if you can't make it, and you'd like to sponsor some Diversity Scholars to attend, that would be brilliant as well. Last year we had 25 people sponsored to come and it made a huge difference. This year, we've got up to 50 spaces (we may open up more) and we need people to buy these tickets to sponsor.

ServerlessDays? (why not JeffConf?)

For more info about ServerlessDays as a series (including why we changed the name from JeffConf), there's a new website: https://serverlessdays.io/

There is also a launch blog about why we changed the name: https://serverless.zone/goodbye-jeffconf-hello-serverlessdays-9ae26791d3f

There are currently 22 ServerlessDays either being planned for 2018/19 or announced. It's a great space to be involved in right now. https://serverlessdays.io/map

clarkie commented 6 years ago

I'll be there tomorrow night too. I'll help with Twitter and stuff

admataz commented 6 years ago

@clarkie - great! Thanks. can you coordinate with @claireinez around any info and ticket giveaways?

claireinez commented 6 years ago

Yep, Clarkie and I have chatted about the tickets :)

@sielay I'll chat to you tomorrow too. I think it will be best to put your lightning talk in the middle of the two other talks.

sielay commented 6 years ago

@claireinez will grab you. I think you're right. Presentation is here https://react-ops.github.io/presentation (but will take my mac) and I'll storm through it to match in 5 minutes rather than discuss it.

I'll steal 30 seconds afterwards to announce my August 500miles in 5 days cycling and ask for:

claireinez commented 6 years ago

@admataz should we close meetup registrations once the names have been sent to Conde Nast? There were a few issues with people not on the list turning up last month.

admataz commented 6 years ago

yes - I've closed it for that reason -

clarkie commented 6 years ago

Do we send the names of the people on the waitlist too?

admataz commented 6 years ago

@clarkie - there's no strict policy.... I'm trying to work it out - but this month and last I have, yes as there weren't that many and I think we can afford it space wise

admataz commented 6 years ago

just to clarify - I moved everyone that was on the waitlist into the attending list on meetup before exporting and sending to Michelle - so they will have been notified that they are able to attend

claireinez commented 6 years ago

Just for the record, Michelle would prefer if we do always send the names from the waiting list (if we end up with so many people that we can't just add them to "Attending" like we did this month).

@admataz had a good idea that we trialled for job announcements last night, where we only get the people who are looking for jobs to intro themselves, and get everyone hiring to raise their hands and make eye contact. The only problem was that it was kind of sprung on the job hunters so I guess a heads up at the beginning would go a long way to prepping them for this. But I got good feedback from them after because they really enjoyed having people come up to them to hire them 😄

sielay commented 6 years ago

There were few people who asked about the ability to do some training jobs. I suggested they just ask for a job. Maybe it's worth to encourage people more to say they are free, maybe not only for job but also internship etc.

claireinez commented 6 years ago

@sielay I don't quite understand what you mean. Are you saying we should change the wording from "looking for a job" to encourage anyone who's available for any level of coding? If so, I'm all for anything that makes tech more inclusive!

sielay commented 6 years ago

Yep. I had the impression there were more people but bit afraid to step out (sorry for an unclear message, wrote it in a hurry). It's about level, but also about form (maybe some contractors don't see themselves as hires). I met a guy who said: I learned a bit of node and did some projects, before that I worked in Ruby, but I consider myself junior and want to learn. He felt a bit too junior to step out.

orliesaurus commented 6 years ago

Unpaid internships are illegal AFAIK? so be careful about the phrasing

claireinez commented 6 years ago

Yep great point @orliesaurus, that's where my misunderstanding came from, the word "free".

sielay commented 6 years ago

@claireinez @orliesaurus sorry for that. What I meant I was approached by someone offering doing something for free. I said don't do it for free.

admataz commented 6 years ago

moving on...