Limassol Hackers #15
Limassol Hackers #15
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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! 🎉 💯 |
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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 ***@***.***> 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! 🎉 💯
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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! 😃 |
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| - Currently there's around 50 people in the community. | ||
| - We'd like to see around 100 people until July. | ||
| - We had a sharp increase when we founded the community last April, and after the last event, in December 2016. |
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What are you doing in the event to help raise awareness that this is a longer-term community, and what that community offers?
| - Hackathon: Ninja Hacks - April & Local Hack Day - Winter | ||
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| ### Accessibility | ||
| - Everything is fairly accsible, online and the in person workshops. |
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| ### Interests | ||
| - The community is made up of only first time hackers introduced to the community through our hackathons, they come from all backgrounds from economics to art. | ||
| - It's completely open to any high schooler that is interested in creating and technology. |
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How do you reflect this open nature to the community? What does it look like from someone looking outside -> in?
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