[emacs-berlin] One year anniversary

[Arne Brasseur]

> I love the idea. I would be up to help you with the intro talk for
beginners.

Cool. Let's pick a time to sit together for this.

> How about announcing it at the RUG:B and maybe a few other meetups?

Great idea :) I'd also like to put an announcement on the website that we
can refer to.


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Andreas Tiefenthaler <at at an-ti.eu> wrote:

>
> I love the idea. I would be up to help you with the intro talk for
> beginners.
>
> I can also take care of the pizza sponsoring this time and our office is
> as usual open.
>
> How about announcing it at the RUG:B and maybe a few other meetups?
>
> Andy
>
>
> Arne Brasseur <arne.brasseur at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello Emacsarians,
> >
> > On 27 March 2014 a handful of people got together at the former Travis
> > Office at Moritzplatz for the very first Emacs Berlin meetup. Here are
> the
> > notes of what we did that day [1]
> >
> > This means that our next meetup on 25 March 2015 will be our one year
> > anniversary. Yay \o/
> >
> > Because of this I'd like to make a little more effort to make this a
> great
> > day, and to invite some people that maybe haven't found the way to our
> > little corner of the geekyverse yet.
> >
> > Here's what I'm thinking
> >
> > - prepare an "introduction to Emacs" talk, suitable for people coming
> from
> > Notepad, so to speak. I'm happy to do this, I'd also be very happy to get
> > some help with this :) raise your hand if this sounds like your kind of
> > thing
> >
> > - do some lightning talks in the 5 min + 5 min Q&A format. This doesn't
> > have to be a lot of effort to prepare, and it could be a great follow-up
> > after the introduction to zoom in on specific things, a mode, package,
> > feature you really like. So, let us know what topic you feel like
> covering!
> > Again, this isn't much work to prepare, you'd be amazed how fast 5
> minutes
> > go by. Also don't think any topic is "too basic".
> >
> > - ask everybody who attended before to invite a friend, in particular
> > someone who doesn't fit the mold of the average attendee so far. One year
> > in we really should start thinking about diversity more, and a little
> > affirmative action can go a long way. It'll be a very beginner-friendly
> > edition, we'll make it extra clear on the website and on the announcement
> > that we aim to create a safe and welcoming space, and we'll make double
> > sure there will be drinks and snacks to sweeten the deal :)
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Arne
> >
> > [1]: http://emacs-berlin.org/20140327.html
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