SF September Frontend Workshop

[sidhene]

A few months out:

• Find a venue and sponsor for the workshop. This workshop covers HTML, CSS, and an intro to JavaScript. Sponsoring the workshop costs between $400 and $900, depending on the size of the workshop. - MakerSpace with @shahshaan is our venue.
• Find two co-organizers. It's a lot of work, but always a lot of fun. No experience necessary; checkout the workshop cookbook if it's new to you. (Also, we match up first time organizers with mentors.) @keomany and @Missimi are this workshop's organizers.

Just leave a comment below if you're able to host, sponsor or organize! 😸

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

• Work together to set an RSVP limit that works for everyone
• Post the workshop to Bridge Troll
• Post the workshop to Meetup.
• Make sure the javascript curriculum is easily accessible from the rest of the curriculum

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

🌷

[chrisbrickey]

Volunteering to organize

[sidhene]

I'm onboarding/mentoring chrisbrickey in the June Pride workshop

[lzhengem]

Hi! I'm volunteering to organize! :)

[klq]

Is this on September.28th? I can help organize this one.

[iisa]

Hi @klq @Missimi @sidhene @chrisbrickey - I don't believe a date has been confirmed for this workshop yet.

Amy, re: our last conversation - I mistook this Sept. workshop for the one I am mentoring which is Sept. 6

LMK if there is anything else I can help with. Best, Isa

[shahshaan]

We can provide the venue. For whomever is following all the different threads for the 3 workshops in August/September, you might be seeing a trend here. :)

@sidhene it might help to meet in person. Being new to the tech community, it would definitely help me on my end. shaan@makersquare.com

[missherico]

Hi @shahshaan - thanks very much for confirming the venue for this workshop. it will only be a one day front-end workshop. @keomany (Holly) will be taking over as workshop-venue contact for RailsBridge.

We also have another organizer, @Missimi. I will be mentoring @keomany and @Missimi so please keep me CC'd when we start emailing off-thread. This is very exciting. Let's continue to keep in touch. Best, Isa

[shahshaan]

Sounds good @missherico

When you all start communicating via email, you can reach me at shaan@makersquare.com

[rachelmyers]

I updated the title based on the description in the top post. Please re-edit it if I'm wrong. 😶

[keomany]

HAI.

How far along are we with this workshop? I'm going to start tackling the rest of the tasks on this list, namely ordering food (breakfast & lunch), finding a venue for the after-party and making the event/setting a RSVP limit on Bridgetroll.

But first, I have some questions: how do I organize a teacher training session? What is the budget for food? Do I contact MakerSquare for this information?

[iisa]

Hey Holly @keomany, way to be team lead! Ok, so yes, please contact Shaan directly as above, please cc me and @Missimi when you do. Once you can get the confirmation on logistics (conference rooms w monitors, approx how many people can fit, things Makersquare needs to get this workshop done, can they provide coffee throughout the day?), then let's get that event on bridgetroll. that's a great place to start.

[lzhengem]

Hello!
I'm excited to be here, and ready to help! I agree that it would be helpful to have a mentoring session though.

Thanks!!

[iisa]

hi @Missimi, Holly will email us 3 in one thread, and let's schedule a face-to-face meeting if possible soon. we can meet at my job after hours if needed. what's your gmail?

[lzhengem]

hello @iisa! my email is lzheng22@mail.ccsf.edu.

[keomany]

Gottt it. How do I go about organizing a teacher trainjn? Do we need to find or reach out to volunteers first? Who will train them? Will it be held at Maker Square?

[keomany]

Will I need to create an event or just email them?

[tjgrathwell]

@keomany I noticed the Bridge Troll event for this (http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/114) includes an Installfest; that's probably not needed for a Frontend workshop because students mostly just need a web browser and text editor. Was that intentional?

There's no way to remove sessions using the website after the event is saved, but if there's not going to be an installfest I can remove the installfest from the DB before publishing.

[keomany]

Hey Travis,

Could you do that please? I forgot that I was organizing the front-end workshop, and thought I was doing the regular RoR one.

Thanks.
Holly

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@keomany I noticed the Bridge Troll event for this (http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/114) includes an Installfest; that's probably not needed for a Frontend workshop because students mostly just need a web browser and text editor. Was that intentional?

There's no way to remove sessions using the website after the event is saved, but if there's not going to be an installfest I can remove the installfest from the DB before publishing.

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[shahshaan]

Hey all,

I can't say I have been the best with keeping up with the conversation on
Github, but we spoke to Holly yesterday and I think we're on track.

If you all have any questions, please contact harsh@makersquare.com (cc'ed)
or call me at the number below.

Thanks,
Shaan

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shahshaan@gmail.com | 630.965.1807
shaanshah.com | @ShahShaank https://twitter.com/ShahShaank

Latest blog post: Step One to Working at a Startup, It Takes Two Hours a
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:21 PM, keomany notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey Travis,

Could you do that please? I forgot that I was organizing the front-end
workshop, and thought I was doing the regular RoR one.

Thanks.
Holly

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Travis Grathwell notifications@github.com
wrote:

@keomany I noticed the Bridge Troll event for this (
http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/114) includes an Installfest; that's
probably not needed for a Frontend workshop because students mostly just
need a web browser and text editor. Was that intentional?

There's no way to remove sessions using the website after the event is
saved, but if there's not going to be an installfest I can remove the
installfest from the DB before publishing.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

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[tjgrathwell]

Alright, both the event and the teacher training have been published on Bridge Troll.

[lilliealbert]

Hey, this workshop is the weekend after the Front End workshop at Dev Bootcamp. Can we move it back in September or turn it into a Rails workshop?

[rachelmyers]

@shahshaan wrote:

If you all have any questions, please contact harsh@makersquare.com (cc'ed)
or call me at the number below.

Let's not change the issues-based workflow and revert to email for a single workshop. Did you know you can direct notifications from repos owned by the railsbridge organization to harsh@makersquare.com, if that's where you'd like updates to go? 🌈 From the github notification settings:

You can send notifications to different verified email addresses depending on the organization that owns the repository.

Yay for not breaking each others' flow! ⚡

[keomany]

Hi Lillie, I'll move the date back.

[lilliealbert]

I'm actually not worried about this anymore, because we already have 12 volunteers signed up to teach the 30 students — it'll probably be much bigger of a mess to try to reschedule it than it is to just let it be.

[lilliealbert]

Looks like this workshops has come and gone — gonna close this issue! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ to everyone who made it happen!