@admataz thanks again for the shoutout in the podcast mate, also nicely hosted @simonmcmanus I will make sure that one of our Engineers at Unmind get's in touch with their topic for the 4th as we should be able to have someone share some insights into life at Unmind and our tech
Please do be in touch if you have any thoughts or feedback.
@mcleanmichael - that sounds great - please put them in touch - it will be great to hear from them when we do meet.
hi, Just wondering if you have considered using hopin.to for meetups?
It's a new platform currently in early access. The company is based out of London.
Yesterday I attended a RunningRemote.com conference on Hopin. It was brilliant. Unlike most other tech, it's designed for the purpose of virtual meetups/conferences.
I just mention it because I thought it worked great.
Cheers
Matt
Good morning @/all - so it's another week of kitchen table offices - how is everyone coping with lockdown? I'm missing our pizza and beer fuelled fourth wednesday buzz. We're needing to adapt the way we work as a community. LNUG is still open for talk proposals - and we're looking at ways to make this online-only meetup experience as good and valuable as ever. If you're interested to help, or have ideas - please let me know.
How are you?
the perils of home working
it's normal Monday morning focus issues here - so many interesting things happening, compared to the list of glitches and fixes required for the current Jira ticket
It's that polish phase of the project, day before release, and tickets from PO labeled "UX improvements"
I sound like I'm complaining - I'm actually not
meanwhile how are you @/all ? Is anyone finding they have more time for learning new technologies under lockdown?
D:
i was actually teaching the young fella python before this started
my young ones love coding too - it gives them such a thrill
now they are taking over. my 12yo daughter enrolled in a 9 day hackathon called "teens in AI" and they went off and built apps and things. I'm totally blown away
@/all - we gathering #nodestories - would be fun if we all could fill a board of these for the next meetup: https://twitter.com/LNUGorg/status/1258336380368928768
For the next podcast episode, we are going to look at "Finding a Job during a Pandemic" - We're going to look at what's going on with the node Jobs market at the moment. Who is still hiring and how to get a job in this climate. If you have questions, or things you would like us to investigate, please send them my way.
ahh yes, I like that - will see what I can get in there. kinda related - I found this the other day. Government projects are legally obliged to consider bids from voluntary/community and social enterprise orgs which would include LNUG I think. Lots of details about bidding in here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vcses-a-bidders-guide-to-working-with-government
Hey @simonmcmanus - that is a very interesting doc - just scanning through it - it would be interesting to see how LNUG can help people get work through this kind of channel - I'm sure we could be considered a community social enterprise - we may need to do some organisational paperwork to make that more clear - and offer some accountability to our community (thinking constitution, nominated office bearers etc) I'm involved with another group focused on youth and coding education, and we've just been through a process of making the organisation more of an official entity with a constitution etc - if anyone's interested in taking LNUG to this level - let's chat.
should get you there @nano-monkey
talking to reno