- HRDevFest scholarship recipient recieved and made it to the conference.
- First part of the paperwork done for Non-Profit/B Corp - Guillermo Fisher
- Sponsors - Cloudreach may sponsor future meetups, Dominion Enterprise, Issue Track as well.
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Kevin Curry Code4HR - Jan
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Maurice Heyward - Feb UI/UX
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AWS Event in March (verify with AWS person)
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April - December ?
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Touchbase with Norfolk Public Library for deadlines
- Maxx Potential
- ODU
- Cloudreach
- Virginia Beach (need to find venue)
- Peninsula (Troy talk to people on this side)
- Branding
- Blog
- Social Media Platforms
- City of Norfolk
- Sponsoring/Supporting/Collaborating with local groups (Code for HR, CodeVA, GirlsCanCode, WIT)
- What demographic are we focusing on? What platform/issues are we focusing on? This should help drive who we collab with and support.
- Road Trip: Conference Attendance
- https://www.northstarphl.com/program/
- https://bwshomecoming.com/
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kvqby/black-tech-conferences-offer-a-lifeline-in-a-predominantly-white-industry
- https://medium.com/theplug/black-tech-conferences-offer-a-lifeline-in-a-predominantly-white-industry-7df0d234b91
- Diversity meetup group in Boston - referred by Google contact
- Local Conference
- Link people with internships/jobs - people who have successfully completed training sessions and actively participated in meetups, like collecting credits & references
- Co-working space / training lab / community hangout
Getting people to speak worked with a great turnout in initial meeting. Keep the consistency with building a great community. Sense of trust with how much we've grown since the initial meetup. Fundamental topics helped gain interest.
The group was increasing but not represented in people attending. Hacktoberfest could've/should've been facilitated better to engage the commmunity for contributions. Customer feedback would help with engaging members to contribute.Use email for survey, maybe meetup.com. Integrate users in the group with tasks to achieve ownership. Slack channel logistics. (Not everyone who is a leadedr can post in announcements, etc) Leverage Code4HR to help build community.