08.23.06
Byteclub, Lucien and stuff
I know this is a late post many days after, however just to let ppl know that as far as I am concerned, Lucien doesn’t get away that easy and any excuse I can find to involve alumni staff, espically officially in his new job, in our byteclub business - it’s happening! Lucien was the founding force - I mostly tried to nod in the right place. Its been great to work with Lucien and i’m really missing that. Lets just say IM chats ease the pain.
Also, knowing my human limitatins I am actively seeking help from other staff with byteclub and making plans. Okay, it’s not “all happening” at the moment the way we wanted, and I honestly (sadly) don’t have enough time for cool stuff here on byteclub as is, but the byteclub project is definitely an on-going and supported venture.
Here’s some ideas I have - and I would really like your help and feedback (easy on the “pain points”).
- Get the onine registration form happening again. (Mark is ready to help here, so that’s in my entourage todo list after open day!)
- Actively seek out past and present students - maybe some finders fees are in order? Hm… “Bounty hunters”…
- We need more than just “online” events. Speakers are good. Food, games nights, videos…
- game development competition
- newsletter (any volunteers?)
- posters/flyers etc
- online project repository/bug tracking etc to help group members develop projects
- … others?? let me know
So, do I have any helpers? Comments? Suggestions? Comment or send me emails or just plan knock on my office door and have a chat - that would be nice.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Andrew B Coathup said,
August 25, 2006 at 12:50 am
Hmm, not sure that I am volunteering, but I am still here, I would like to see the dream of ByteClub come to fruition. Oops, sounds like I am volunteering for something (even if that something is from the UK)
First suggestion, make the bloglist v2 live.
Lets aim for a relaunch of Byte Club for Semester 1 2007. Start the semester with a few keen evangelists in the first week or two to go to IT lectures and give a quick presentation about what Byte Club is about and how to join.
Have an event in the second or third week of the semester, something basic like a tetris competition then go for pizza or beers (or order in for a couple of dollars a person).
Aim for a weekly or fortnightly meeting with a small challenge something which can be done in 20 minutes or so, (regex, optimise code snippet, get html/css to validate)
My two cents.
Regards
Andrew
Tim said,
September 2, 2006 at 10:53 pm
“Actively seek out past and present students - maybe some finders fees are in order? Hm… “Bounty hunters”… ”
Dare I ask what you had in mind for tracking down old students? As in, what kind of involvement would you like from them/us?
I’ve just kinda sat back and played wallflower throughout Byteclub since day 1, but if anything does come up which is easily accessable and can be usefully contributed to, I’m sure myself and others will answer the call.
At the same time though, ByteClub will never go anywhere if it picks up for a while, then goes dead, like it did originally (eg, because someone hacks the server and we all just forget about it while its down). It needs a constant flow of stuff.
If they need content, I’ll be relaunching my own site in a few months with a radically different approach to colunms vs “elsewhere” stuff - my thoughts would be to get it set up in a portal-fashion so it can pull content from other locations, so it’s less strain on those content providers (the bloggers).
Just a thought.