[committee] Potential speaking engagement

[Samuel Spencer]

Hey Felix,

Happy New Year. Just following up on our emails from late last year.
We are still planning a trip to Perth in May, during the week of the 5th to the 12th.

On the trip will be our team of 4:

  *   Sam Spencer - Co-founder (Technical) Aristotle Cloud Services
  *   Lauren Eickhorst - Co-founder (Business) Aristotle Cloud Services
  *   Harry White - Dev-ops Developer / recent UWA Graduate
  *   Francisco Gallardo - Full-stack Developer

I'm still keen on giving at talk at UWA with the support of UCC. My suggestion would be a 1-2 hour long session, including a 30 minute talk from myself talking a little bit about the company, but more importantly talking about what goes into founding a business/startup in Australia, building a product, managing open-source and commercial responsibilities and the challenges on moving from a developer to a business role. Introductions from the team, and then a Q&A with the whole team. The Q&A would be useful as I think everyone here has a different perspective on their roles in the company, as well a range of experiences.
The aim would be to give a bit of an overview in the realities of making or working for a startup.

We'd also be happy to sponsor some pizzas and beer (or other catering) for the event as well to help generate interest.

If there is still interest, we'll start build some bios to help you when talking about the event, and we'd be happy to provide some guidance on things we've found useful when holding events like this. If you have any questions either Lauren or I would be happy to help.

Cheers,
Sam.

From: Felix von Perger <frekk at ucc.asn.au>
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2018 7:01 PM
To: Samuel Spencer <sam at aristotlemetadata.com>
Cc: committee at ucc.asn.au
Subject: Re: Potential speaking engagement

Hi Sam,

Thanks for getting in touch.

It would be absolutely fantastic if you were able to present a talk, and UCC will be very happy to help organise whatever scale of event you had in mind.

We have been hoping to host a series of tech talks and workshops on various topics during next semester (March to June 2019) but at this stage we haven't discussed any details. We will make sure to keep you in the loop regarding planning these events.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Felix von Perger [FVP]
UCC President


On 29/11/18 6:29 pm, Samuel Spencer wrote:
Ahoy UCCans,

I'm a former UCCan (2011-2009), who now resides in Canberra and made the unfortunate decision of founding a startup.
I've spammed the UCC Facebook page with it before - I'm the guy who runs the Aristotle Metadata Registry.
We've been really lucky/busy over the past 6 months with a few large projects with government.

In late April / early May, I'll be travelling back to Perth for a long earned break to catchup with friends, and we're bringing 3 members of the startup over as well.
I (and potentially my co-founder) like to spend some of that time speaking with UCCans about startup life, including:


  *   What you should think about if you want to found a startup in Australia
  *   What you should think about if you want to join a startup in general
  *   What you should think about if you want to join or work with the public service
  *   What technologies are useful if you want to get an MVP off the ground

Would UCC interested in helping coordinate a talk or too around that time to UCCans/UWA comp-sci students on those topics?

Cheers,
Sam Spencer (CHZ) *
Start-up founder / Company Director / Former-UCCan / General troublemaker **

* https://www.ucc.asn.au/member/tla.ucc
** There are about 4 past presidents who can be referees for the amount of trouble I made.
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