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NodeSchool Toronto

NodeSchool is focused around open source workshops that teach web software skills. Individuals are encouraged to do the workshoppers on their own or at one of the NodeSchool events. The workshopper tutorials are used as the course curriculum while mentors are here to help attendees work through challenges. Participating in one of the events is easy:

Want to Attend?

Check out our website, event listing or sign up to our newsletter for information on future events and other news.

Interested in Mentoring or Helping Out?

If you want to help teach or contribute in anyway, make a Pull Request and add your name to the list below with relevant contact details; And/or contact @rickycodes or @jeffjewiss for further information. Mentors and Volunteers are currently contacted and confirmed, before each event, via our Slack Channel.

Ricky Miller: @rickycodes
Jeff Jewiss: @jeffjewiss
Brenna O'Brien @brenna
Darcy Clarke: @darcyclarke
Rich Gilbank: @richgilbank
Andrew D'Amelio @andrewdamelio
Tessa Thornton @tessalt
Laura DeGroot @lauradegroot
Chris Mendis @chrismendis
Wisam Zaghal @wzaghal
Mohamad Atie @mohamadatieh
Ahmad Nassri @AhmadNassri
Ryan Christiani @rchristiani
Vlad Filippov @vladikoff
Jeremiah Senkpiel @Fishrock123
Nicole Chung @nicolechung
Michael Perrotte @mikemimik
Jason Etcovitch @jasonetco
Makrand Gupta @makrandgupta
Sylvan Mably @smably

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March 19th Mentor Roll Call

👍

Mentor Roll Call December 3rd

🔈 🔈 🔈 ROLL CALL 🔈 🔈 🔈

#whos-in

December 3rd Event

Mentor Roll Call October 28th 2017

March 18th Roll call

Add a 👍 If you can make it!

November 19th Roll Call

Slack intro of what attendees are working on

It might make sense to make a #working-on Slack channel to capture that information free from general discussion noise.

Build Hubot for Slack Channel

Cause we can... and it's cool... and yada yada yada integration yada yada yada dark side

May Event Checklist

CLI Tool

This is a quick draft of a CLI tool we should create, to help us more efficiently run events.

The Goal:

'start with consolidation of basic event tasks'.then('add fun features for attendees')

References:

Features:

store access/credentials privately
event creation
- tito event creation
- github "role call" issue creation
- website update
- slack announcement in mentor channel
  - delegates are requested for the event: space, food & drinks
notifications
- use templates for each to standardized event announcement messaging
- slack announcement + channel topic change
- email announcement (resolve email addresses acquired through mailchimp & tito)
- twitter announcement

API

Mentors

$ nsto acronym for the namespace/npm package
$ nsto create december
- Defaults to generating event based on the 3rd Saturday of that month, of the current year
- --date=29 sets a specific date for the event
- --name='Christmas Blowout!' sets a specific name for the event
- --max=100 sets the maximum attendees for the event
$ nsto update ...
$ nsto notify

Attendees

$ nsto register april --email=<[email protected]>

Implementation Details

We could try to grab the global git user info if --email isn't passed for registration
Can't modify an event outside of the current year
- This is for sanity and api simplicity
- ex. $ nsto update june --name='Summer Time, Fun Times' modifies the event in June 2016

Future Ideas

We could add in event listing/information from this cli
- ex. $ nsto events would return a list of the previous and upcoming events to query further

November Discussion Points - Feedback Form

Here are the talking points from the November meetup as well as some of the information we'd like to add to the feedback form we'll be sending out to attendees.

Internal Notes

Send out thanks/feedback form to attendees
Determine and outline a way to streamline adding new mentors (ie. requiring a vote by committee, attending multiple events, involvement in the community/slack channel, sharing demos, doing a talk etc.)
Outline the format, schedule and request attendee demos in email communication leading up to an event
Provide name tags for the next event
Add Shopify's logo to the site as an ongoing sponsor (they now cover food, drinks, security and the venue for our events)
Determine if we should run a December event
Try out a hands-on workshop to run in parallel of the January event (potential topics: NodeBots, Express, Sails.js, WebPack, Mongoose)
Try out an elongated schedule (an hour to the end or beginning) with more substantial food options for the January event

Feedback Form

Which would you prefer 12:00pm - 4:00pm or 1:00pm - 5:00pm (radio)
Would you appreciate a more substantial food option at the beginning or end of our events? (Y/n)
Would you attend a more directed, hands-on workshop if available? (Y/n)
- What topics would you like to learn about? (text field)(comma separated)
How can we stay better connected with you and the community? (text field)
Would you come back? (Y/n)
- Why or Why not? (text field)
Would you tell your friends about this event? (Y/n)
- Why or Why not? (text field)
Are you looking for a job in Node? (Y/n)
Why did or are you coming to these events? (multiple choice)
- Looking for a new job or to switch roles
- Work on personal projects
- Hang out and socialize
- Education
- Other (text field)

/cc @jeffjewiss @rickycodes @ahmadnassri @brenna @richgilbank @vladikoff @jrdnndtsch @tessalt @Fishrock123 @wzaghal @neilff @chrismendis
I'd like some 👍's before I feel comfortable sending out the form to attendees; If you can, please review before tomorrow night and provide feedback if any. Would like to get this out ASAP so that the event is still fresh in people's minds.

T-Shirts?

I've talked with a few people and it seems like having T-Shirts for mentors could be fun/helpful... easy to spot us in the crowds.

I'm ok with doing it, just need a roll call of all required shirt cuts/sizes.

testing slack github integration

add new mentors to website

Neil Fenton, https://twitter.com/neil_fenton
Chris Mendis, https://twitter.com/chrismendis

When will the next event be announced for the 19th?

March 19th Checklist

September Event Checklist

Won't be there, but starting a checklist since it is good to start thinking about these things now.

Email notification, as soon as event is confirmed.
Tweet as soon as event is confirmed.
Email Reminder, few days before.
Twitter Reminder, few days before.
Mentor roll call.
Coffee order for event.
Update main Node School Site, and Node School Toronto Site
buy more nodeSchool stickers

December Mentor roll call.

Testing the waters to see if a December event would be ok.

12th or 19th

Please post below if you can make one of those dates.

April 22nd Mentor Roll Call

A little late to the party, but who is coming out to mentor this month!

February Mentor Roll Call - Feb 27th

👍

Post Event Notes

In no particular order:

Feedback email/survey: Send out feedback email and survey after events
Write down process for event creation (tito ticket fields): Document event details so that other people can create events and manage them if people are not available
Twitter schedule tweets
Reminder Email
Auto Slack signup: System to sign people up for slack when they get a ticket
Demo White board: A board to let people write down their names if they want to do a demo
Theme events/different rooms : Set up events based on certain workshops(ie: express) have specific rooms for the theme.
Slack intro of what you are working on.
Robust Checklist: Add to it
Slack Topic change
Event every third Saturday of the month.
Mentor Roll call. First on the month and one week before
Capacity based on mentors
If you don't have a ticket you can't come.
Show up at 12 for mentors
~~Mail chimp on website.~~
Delegate event roles (ie: coffee, event space, etc)

That is all I had written down!

Feb 18th Event Roll Call

Hi!

If you can make it as a mentor please add a 👍 !

June 18th Mentor Roll Call

👍

Event checklist!

@brenna came up with the idea of a simple checklist to run through maybe the week before an event. This could be used as a template for each event?!

Thought I would get it started so we don't forget about it. Add to it anything that is missing!

email notification, as soon as event is confirmed
Email Reminder, few days before
Twitter Reminder, few days before
Mentor roll call.
Coffee order for event.
Update main Node School Site, and Node School Toronto Site

February Guided Workshop - "Node.js 101"

@nodeschool/toronto-mentors I'm looking for 2 mentors to help me during the guided workshop that will be run in the larger boardroom of the Shopify office, in-between the talks and demo time (ie. 1:30pm to 3:30pm). The focus is on Node.js Basics and getting a simple site up and running. Attendees should be required to have some previous front-end + JavaScript experience.

I'll work on a more formal outline and share it with the mentors for review within a week or so. If anyone has suggestions about important material to cover in a 101 workshop please share in the comments below.

Key takeaways for attendees:

understanding of what node is good at and useful for
understanding of how to build and run a basic node server

May Event Mentor Roll Call

May 21st. International Node School Day!

Add Shopify as a Sponsor to Website

I've been meaning to do this for awhile and we all seemed to agree that adding Shopify's logo as an "in-kind" sponsor of our events made sense.

This doesn't mean that they'll always be a "sponsor", or that their logo will stay up forever, or even that we can't try relocate and have other organizations help us out in any capacity. It just seems like a good way to recognize their contributions thus far (ie. providing the space, security and paying for coffee/timbits).

January 23rd Event Check list.

Newsletter update

Re: nodeschool/newsletter#8

Anyone have something that could go toward writing up a little blurb on our happenings? We've been one of the most active NodeSchools that I know of, would be great to share a bit about our process and events.

@nodeschool/toronto-mentors

October 29th Roll call

👍

[brainstorm] telling a story over the events' timeline

we take a picture at the end of every event, what if we can somehow design/plan the pictures to tell a story of the progression over time...

not sure what the concept / idea would be, but this is a good place to discuss.

add "what to expect" / "how to prepare" to website

bring your own laptop
install Node beforehand
workshops are self-directed, selected from the NodeSchool workshoppers list
can work on own projects if you prefer
there will be mentors available to help with both workshoppers and personal projects

April 16th Event Checklist

May 20 Mentor Roll Call

Who's free to mentor on May 20?!

Mentor Roll Call January 27th

Who's gonna be around?

January 23rd Mentor Roll Call

Wrong address on map

https://nodeschool.io/toronto/ shows 483 Queen St West, though the event is booked at Shopify. If anyone has a sec can you take a look?

Really like the website.. do you automate mentor/attendee lists?

October Check list

June 17 Mentor Roll Call

Who's going to be around?

November 21st Checklist

Organize a Guided Workshop for January

I'm willing to do this in case as I know the event is coming fast. I think just a simple "Node Basics" guided workshop would be good to offer this time around. I'd introduce some high level concepts but also get everyone to build a simple website with a few npm modules by the end of our time together.

@Rchristiani I know you were keen to run the first one of these on nodebots, I'm thinking maybe we try and run that at the February event, that way we can also hype it up a bit more and maybe get more people to attend.

@nodeschool/toronto-mentors Thoughts?