PDX Workshop

[vpivo]

I'm moving from SF to Portland and bringing railsbridge with me! I'm uncertain if we should attempt hosting a workshop this close to the holiday season or start fresh in January.

A few months out:

• [x] Find a venue and sponsor for the workshop: ThoughtWorks can help sponsor.
• [x] Find co-organizers and start going through the workshop cookbook.
• [ ] Start creating a list of contacts in Portland!

Once we have a venue/sponsor and organizers, we can:

• [x] Set a date that works for everyone. (
• [ ] Set an RSVP limit- this wil depend on the venue.
• [ ] Post the workshop to Bridge Troll
• [ ] Post the workshop to Meetup for publicity

One to two weeks out, we can:

• [ ] Plan a teacher training
• [ ] Order breakfast
• [ ] Order lunch
• [ ] Find a good place for the afterparty

After the workshop, we can:

• [ ] Party!
• [ ] Retro
• [ ] Expense anything we can't get sponsors to cover!

[rachelmyers]

I added you to the Organizers team, so you should have all the permissions for this repository. :sparkles:

To add people, if you know someone's GitHub username, you can mention them like twitter, and they'll get a notification linking to this issue! For example, @eanakashima, do we know any people in Portland who would like to help out with a Portland RailsBridge workshop??

[emersonp]

I, for one!

[rachelmyers]

Awesome! Thanks @emersonp! :smile_cat:

[eanakashima]

Thanks for the mention, @rachelmyers. Unfortunately I don't know anyone in Portland who'd be RailsBridgey.

[lilliealbert]

Hi @amypivo — just looked at your event on Bridge Troll. Since RailsBridge workshops have to reach out to under-represented populations, could you add which population(s) this workshop is focusing on to the workshop description? Once that's in there I'll hit the publish button.

[vpivo]

Hey @lilliealbert We wanted to work out any potential kinks before reaching out to specific under-represented communities, which we would need to work with to get groups big enough for a workshop. Is it cool to just have it open to all underrepresented groups?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Lillie Chilen notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @amypivo https://github.com/amypivo — just looked at your event on Bridge Troll. Since RailsBridge workshops have to reach out to under-represented populations, could you add which population(s) this workshop is focusing on to the workshop description? Once that's in there I'll hit the publish button.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/railsbridge/organizing/issues/42#issuecomment-62833678 .

[lilliealbert]

Yes, but you still need to specify that, and it probably makes sense to give examples. (Black and latin@ people, women, queer people, etc.)

[vpivo]

Yes, that makes sense. Thanks!

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Lillie Chilen notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, but you still need to specify that, and it probably makes sense to give examples. (Black and latin@ people, women, queer people, etc.)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/railsbridge/organizing/issues/42#issuecomment-62940319 .

[vpivo]

How does this sound?

This workshop is open to anyone who is a member of a group that is underrepresented in the tech industry and their guests. This includes women, minorities, and lgbtqia.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Lillie Chilen notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, but you still need to specify that, and it probably makes sense to give examples. (Black and latin@ people, women, queer people, etc.)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/railsbridge/organizing/issues/42#issuecomment-62940319 .

[vpivo]

Are we set @lilliealbert? Should I change anything else?

[ruchikakumar]

Hey @amypivo just checking that I'm OK to close this issue out? How was the event?