Mozilla Clubs Central london first meet up notes
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Saallen on January 07, 2016
Saallen on January 07, 2016Pre event
Frank called into the london office the day before the event to discuss the outline for the next 5 weeks of the club and the platform and tools we could use. Frank had alread created an event sign up page on Event Ninja.
The object of this Mozilla club was for people to come to together to learn basic coding environment as peers, with the view to grow mentors who could start their own clubs.
Frank wanted for the group at the end of the 6 meet ups to be able to publish a blog page from Github.io.
We chatted about what tools and platform we could use- Teach.mozilla.org
and Thimble.
First Meet up 5th Jan
We has 5 people at our first meetup, one mentor form the pi-jam community, David Ross who would be one of our event mentors and 2 guys who found out about the event online.
We opened the meet up with Story of Self
and this lasted for about an hour. Everyone was eager to share experiences, levels and stories. It really opened the floor, put people at ease and we shared alot of laughs.
We then explored Thimble and made this silly remix .
While this was simple excerise, it highlighted the groups different levels, encouraged conversation and group coordination. It lead to us all chatting about what was next on the agenda for the following week. With the final agenda of a webpage in mind we settled on Mark up tutorials for the next meetup and Introduction to Github.
I had set up the tables but in the end we pulled up couches and chairs around the big screen and worked in a circle for the entire event. I set up this discourse page to encourage group conversations outside of the meet ups.
Frank called into the london office the day before the event to discuss the outline for the next 5 weeks of the club and the platform and tools we could use. Frank had alread created an event sign up page on Event Ninja.
The object of this Mozilla club was for people to come to together to learn basic coding environment as peers, with the view to grow mentors who could start their own clubs.
Frank wanted for the group at the end of the 6 meet ups to be able to publish a blog page from Github.io.
We chatted about what tools and platform we could use- Teach.mozilla.org
and Thimble.
First Meet up 5th Jan
We has 5 people at our first meetup, one mentor form the pi-jam community, David Ross who would be one of our event mentors and 2 guys who found out about the event online.
We opened the meet up with Story of Self
and this lasted for about an hour. Everyone was eager to share experiences, levels and stories. It really opened the floor, put people at ease and we shared alot of laughs.
We then explored Thimble and made this silly remix .
While this was simple excerise, it highlighted the groups different levels, encouraged conversation and group coordination. It lead to us all chatting about what was next on the agenda for the following week. With the final agenda of a webpage in mind we settled on Mark up tutorials for the next meetup and Introduction to Github.
I had set up the tables but in the end we pulled up couches and chairs around the big screen and worked in a circle for the entire event. I set up this discourse page to encourage group conversations outside of the meet ups.