Today I had a meeting with weehyong today at NUS. Weehyong came up with a few good suggestions and one of them is an Outreach Programme.This is to give some short workshops on introducing .net technology to schools and having some "mini" roadshows in schools to promote sgdotnet. The idea isn't really finalised yet as it's still in the imaginary stage where it's a good idea but how it's going to be done will be another thing altogether which I have to figure out.So I would like some suggestions from you guys out there what you think of this. I'm looking more to attract students who are truly interested in furthering their interest in learning .net to attend our user group meetings. Definitely we're still going to keep our usergroup meeting to very specialised and hopefully technical enough. More the intermediate to advance level. Definitely not for beginners. Workshops and roadshows will spread the word of .Net technology and of SgDotNet. As I mentioned to Kitkai the other day, what I really want is to dig up some gold from the students side, because they are potential active users. I feel students have the potential to further grow and make this community vibrant and active. But definitely a small handful of those interested in knowing more advanced stuff.What do you guys think?
Wah, evangelists? Solid idea, good chance for me to brush up on my presentations skills and spread the love of development to all the new blood. I'm all for the idea.Well, on the other hand, I'm concerned about resource issue. We do not have many members who have time to offer their help. Now, I think we could do some tieup with some of the independent schools (if you need contacts, I can try to get ACS). See what the rest says...
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microlau wrote:Well, on the other hand, I'm concerned about resource issue. We do not have many members who have time to offer their help. Now, I think we could do some tieup with some of the independent schools (if you need contacts, I can try to get ACS).
triplez wrote:This is to give some short workshops on introducing .net technology to schools and having some "mini" roadshows in schools to promote sgdotnet. The idea isn't really finalised yet as it's still in the imaginary stage where it's a good idea but how it's going to be done will be another thing altogether which I have to figure out.
jieke wrote:Will there be anyone to answer the students' questions regarding their projects?
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microlau wrote:Sures..forgive me...My brain's not really working while I'm typing the post
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kitkai wrote:Microlau, maybe we should find one day and pay a visit to Mr Song.
One thing I must tell you guys, as I told kitkai the other day, we're not a helpdesk community where we readily answer student's questions of their project. What we can do through these roadshows are to promote .net technology, and furthermore tell them that if they want to know more about .net, to further their knowledge and learn more advanced topics, sgdotnet is the place for you. That's what we want to convey to the students, and not that we're a helpdesk for your projects.Response might be low, but what we really want to do is sift out those with real potential to further themselves and we can be a place to nurture this interest and potential to bring it to another stage.
triplez wrote:What we can do through these roadshows are to promote .net technology, and furthermore tell them that if they want to know more about .net, to further their knowledge and learn more advanced topics, sgdotnet is the place for you. That's what we want to convey to the students, and not that we're a helpdesk for your projects.
Let me try to clarify this.What they learn from school is usually the 101s series, which is something like "HOW DO I CREATE AN ASP.NET WEBSITE?" and stuff similar to that. I rather let those questions be handled by schools.What I want to focus on is usually students who really want to further themselves in learning outside what is taught in the classroom, for example Agile Development, Build Systems, WSE 2.0, Application Blocks, O/R, Aspect Programming, Patterns and Practises, and so on. We can do a "short" soft introduction to these topics to wet their tastebuds for those who are interested, encourage them to further their explorations through links we can provide, or our own opinions and discussions which will benefit everyone. What we want to do is to promote .Net technology, more advanced topics, best practises to doing things, tips and tricks, workarounds.One of the interesting things I always encounter with students is that they usually have many weird ideas that might work and sometimes are quite fantastically unique and uncalled for, and come up with interesting topics to discuss about. It's usually because of their ignorance that they're not enclosed to a fixed sphere we all might be in right now, which restricts our creativity.