[omaha] FW: Matts Visit

[Burch Kealey]

I don't think this showed up on the list yet so instead of having it held in the queue I am forwarding it.

Remember - please comment if you have some better idea then the plans I laid out.  Not participating means not complaining after I screw things up.
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From: Matthew Makai [matthew.makai at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:53 PM
To: Burch Kealey
Cc: omaha at python.org
Subject: Re: Matts Visit

Hey all,

I'm looking forward to meeting you all in July! I'll have some good stories from across the US to share that will be relevant to Omaha. I will also be in the Midwest several times a year from now on so I hope to come by Omaha Python meetups in the future when our schedules overlap.

Here's my talk:

Making Your City's Developer Community Awesome
What differentiates tech communities in cities across the United States? How do you make your community rally around a programming language's ecosystem and spur genuine excitement every time your group meets? This talk will show you what the best tech communities do right (hint: it's not city size that matters), what mistakes they need to correct, and how Omaha can continue building momentum for its developer community.

Here's my bio taken from my DjangoCon speaker profile:
"Matt Makai is a traveling software developer visiting thirty cities in five months from March through August 2013. Matt has been developing with Django since 2007 starting with version 0.96. He develops Django web applications for clients such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Motley Fool, George Washington University, Marriott International, and the Department of Defense.

Matt writes two blogs, one on software development and entrepreneurship at http://www.mattmakai.com/ and another on his current Coding Across America trip around the United States to visit with technology companies at http://www.codingacrossamerica.com/. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University, an M.S. in Computer Science and Applications from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia."

When I have the entire presentation together it'll be posted on http://www.mattmakai.com/pages/presentations.html

Please pass this on to the other developer meetups, such as PHP, Ruby, and Java. Some examples I'll use are from Python communities across the United States, but they'll still be relevant to any programming language community.

Thanks!
Matt Makai


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Makai <matthew.makai at gmail.com<mailto:matthew.makai at gmail.com>> wrote:

This works for me! I'll cover a combination of Python & interesting stories from what I've seen for building developer communities across the US. If you have specific interests you'd like me to cover please let me know by email!

On Jun 22, 2013 9:57 AM, "Burch Kealey" <bkealey at unomaha.edu<mailto:bkealey at unomaha.edu>> wrote:
I am going to jump off a ledge here and do the following

1- Reserve a room at UNO's Mammell Hall for July 1 from 4:30 to 7:30
2. Plan a 45 minute social arrival window
3. Schedule Matt to be on for a 'talk' from 5:15 to 6:15
4. Have up to 1/2 hour for questions and audience exchange
5. Make arrangements for pizza to be delivered around 6:30
6: Have more social - mingling time from 6:30/6:45 until 7:30 - pizza and soft drinks
7. Award a $100 gift card to Manning, O'Reilly or Best-Buy to one of the attendees who registers on the event page I will create using Eventbrite sometime this weekend and is present when we have the drawing.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Once I send the Eventbrite link though I would really appreciate it if you would forward this far and wide - I am assuming right at this moment we can get the auditorium (the last public event in the auditorium was Warren Buffett sending his first tweet so Matt will be in august company).

As an aside I will make sure all the faculty who are teaching at PKI right now have the link and ask them to send it to their students.

MATT you have to indicate if this works for you - particularly is the speaking time enough or too much!!


I want to tell you that this is going to be tough because I am starting a sabbatical this week and I thought I was going to get a clean break - not the case (that is a little dry-humor if you don't get it don't sweat it).



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