preface
On June 29th, 19, as the organizer, we held a front end technology Open Day – Tuah Front end Technology Open Day. Then the company will hold two technical salon, this time (June 19, 2021) technical salon and suddenly received the “responsibility” 😄. So I was wondering if I’d have to do it next time? Indispensable? So I firmly want to “empower” other students with the ability to hold a technical salon 🐶.
Hopefully, it would be nice to bring some points to those in need. All right, let’s get right to it. Let’s go.
Start by thinking about what direction you need to go. Reminder: The full text is introduced with the sample of the front-end Open Day on June 29, 19.
The general idea is: to understand the purpose of this technical salon, the most important thing is definitely the theme and lecturer. Imagine the scene of the day, prepare materials for the technical salon, and advertise when everything is ready.
Values and objectives
This time we want to build the team’s external technical influence and technical exchange. (As for why to build foreign influence, you can imagine)
There are also technical salons for other purposes, such as technical exchange activities organized by enterprises, technical salons in technical circles, and technical promotion activities.
Once the value direction is clear, we have a general idea of the scope. This time, our theme is to focus on the technology direction of the front end.
We need to confirm the lecturers. Our lecturers should include internal lecturers and external guests (the first meeting needs some “giants” support to enhance the influence of the salon).
Half a day is enough for a general meeting, but the audience is tired. Therefore, one afternoon was set as the meeting duration. According to the speech duration of 30 ~ 40 minutes, about 6 speeches were set.
Too many or too few people were not suitable, so we settled on 100 participants. When the number of students is determined, the venue can be basically confirmed, so we choose our company’s lecture theatre (you can see whether to apply for venue funding to rent according to existing resources).
Since we planned to do this in early April of that year, and the date was Decided on June 29 of that year, we still had plenty of time to prepare. If it is the first time, it is recommended to leave about 2 months to prepare.
“Output of this section” : technical topic (event), number of lecturers (people), number of audience (people), location, time.
Subject, lecturer
As mentioned in the previous section, the topic is the front end direction, which is not detailed to a certain front end direction, so it is friendly to the guest invitation and internal lecturer topic selection.
At that time, ali, netease and Beibei were invited, and the theme of external guests covered micro-service, cross-end, Node construction, etc. Since ali’s lecturer had a conflict in time and was later cancelled, we need to consider the impact of this step and prepare for filing when preparing.
You should be curious about how to invite external guests. Basically, you need to find senior students around you and find their contacts (former colleagues, classmates, friends). If not, you can even directly find celebrities in the front circle, such as Scott, and ask them for help. It’s not as difficult as you might think, but you need to go to “social” 🐶 and break out of your comfort zone.
After determining the external lecturers, how to choose the theme of internal lecturers? We chose the platform-level products with some internal precipitation, covering the direction of error monitoring, low code platform, test machine platform, performance monitoring, etc.
So we’ve identified the lecturers and the speeches, and that’s not the end of it. Maintain good communication with external lecturers, but we also need to “nurture” internal lecturers.
The PPT needs to be rehearsed for 3 times or more, and the following is an arrangement at that time. The basic lecturer needs one month to prepare, especially paying attention to the unified FORMAT of PPT. Let’s give up our own aesthetics and seek more professional designers.
| PPT out after | First shared walkthrough | Second shared exercise | Third shared rehearsal | Designers adjust PPT | The rehearsal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05.27 | 06.03 | 06.10 | 06.17 | 06.17 | 06.29 in the morning |
| (Speech Day) |
The picture below shows the lecturer in the overtime rehearsal.
We have basically finished the lecturers. Now we can simulate the scene and make a flow chart. I’ll do that in the next section.
“Output of this section” : number of internal/external lecturers, external guests and topics, internal lecturers and topics, internal lecturers training.
Simulate the scene
It’s time to imagine what you’d like to see that day. We hope that in addition to sharing, in order to alleviate the fatigue of the audience, afternoon tea, lucky draw and QA gift giving will be added.
Of course, there is not a prologue, and the middle of the host interlude narration. The prologue is usually delivered by the initiator or organizer, and the text is written by itself. Can be interspersed by girls, girls as the host affinity is higher.
Main process
Basically a flow chart of the day’s meeting can come out.
- 13:00-13:30 check-in
- | 13:30 – “the opening speech video
- “Lightning prominence – share – end streaking (push – Yao Guangyin) | video
- 13:50-13:55 Raffle
- The plague – now enterprise front-end system construction of the value of the Node (netease yan – Jin Bing) | video
- Sharing – now – 14:55 home front end performance monitoring platform (push – Kang Xufeng) | video
- 14:55-15:15 tea break
- “- then lightning share – building site (push – Tian Zhengnan) | video
- 15:25-15:30 raffle
- Exploration and Practice of ast-based cross-end solutions (Beibei Group – He Wenjun)
- 16:00 – ticket is the nut – current end in micro service (netease koala – zi-long feng) | video
- Ticket – 17:00 home sharing – how to efficiently use testing machine – cloud platform (push – Huang Botao) | video
- 17:00-17:30 error tolerance time for preachers 😂
As you can see from the image above (ignoring the video), the base time is set before dinner and after 5pm as fault tolerance. Note: Lightning share is about 10 minutes of small share.
Welcome to guide
We need to set up a guide downstairs in the company, we can consider the cost of Yilabao, KT board, wall stickers. Consider the cost we only used KT board, wall stick, poor also want exquisite.
Sign in link
Since it is external, according to the registration system, students will sign in, so we have prepared a good accompanying gift for the students. Prepared 80 (according to the idea of 100 people attending the meeting), the gift is accompanying gift (teacup, notebook, small electric fan) each 80, cost 2800 yuan. For reference only. In order to control the cost, the bags are made of existing resources, which are used by other departments and affixed with circular labels for open days.
When you sign in, you can put a QR code of VX group next to the Open Day to prepare for the program and subsequent communication.
After signing, you can let the student leave a photo, he/she will have the motivation to send the circle of friends 🐶. You came alone, you’re too shy to take pictures, so we also prepared our mascot. That can’t lack a background board ah, because the company has an electronic display screen, save the money to make the background board, through various channels to open source and reduce expenditure 🐶, let the welfare to the students coming.
Draw link
In the middle of the lucky draw, you can provide some small prizes, according to the funds to consider whether you need this link. At that time we prepared the company’s hand, the company’s hat, to the administrative department to apply for company assistance, save a lot of money �𝠮 Can be used as a gift reference option.
Tea link
We prepared an afternoon tea for about 80 people (we expected 100 people to come), including drinks, fruit cups and small cakes, costing 1,500 yuan. Afternoon tea needs to be booked early and set up in advance.
The guests present
Guests from afar, how to thank them, prepared gifts for them, U-shaped pillows, company hands, company t-shirts, company hats. U-shaped pillow 3 pieces, cost 240 yuan, other companies sponsored. Gifts can be used as a reference, that night volunteers and guests to eat a meal together, the cost of burning 🔥, the group construction fee said: “I pay” 🐶.
Speech devices
Generally, if it is a rented site, it will provide more perfect equipment.
As we are the site of the company, we need to prepare a lot of our own. Considering that the site projection can be seen by more people, we purchased the projection curtain of 150 inches by ourselves, costing 500 yuan. Borrow the company’s projector, adapter, infrared pen, sound, microphone. For your reference.
Live broadcast of photography
We provide live broadcast and video, and you need to buy mobile phone live broadcast bracket, huya was used at that time, or Bilibili could be selected. Video, is to borrow the company’s photography machine, to see whether conditions allow, not necessarily need. But a photographer was needed to arrange the shoot, and the later pictures were taken from this.
“Output of this section” : details of each link.
Prepare people and things
Material preparation
This section is basically a checklist for the above requirements. You need to summarize the items mentioned above to avoid omission.
Take, for example, the checklist at the time.
With gift | | hand cup 80 book 80 fan 85 100 80 mineral water bag | | — – | — – | | answer, lottery, guests gifts | T-shirt 30 dolls 18 u-shaped pillow three hat 15 | | | afternoon tea pudding, 80 Fruit cup 100 | | the scene props | guide card kt board bag post 200 copies, sign in | | equipment | 70 turn bench acoustics, microphone, projector, joint, infrared pen, screen |
Then need to comb according to the above, which need to be customized in advance, procurement.
Volunteer arrangement
The simulation site involves many links, each link needs to arrange personnel to be responsible for, do not rely on yourself as the organizer, you should be more in control of the field, reduce the impact of emergencies.
Take that time, for example.
- General director of the venue, 1 person
- Reception desk to sign in and distribute gifts, 2 people
- Guide the background wall to take photos, 2 people (including the mascot)
- Opening warm-up, one
- Host, 1 person
- Meeting minutes, 1 person
- Answer the questions, give gifts, 1 person
- Lucky draw, 1 person
- Feedback recovery, wechat group problems, 1 person
- Conference photography, 1 person
- Recording and broadcasting, 1 person
- Additional questions (in case no one asks 🐶), 3 or 4 people
The host is more important, depends on whether the whole process can be coherent, interesting series, as well as some links of the preview. You also need to prepare your speech in advance and rehearse it before the event.
“Output of this section” : arrangement of personnel and materials.
Advance publicity
To sign up
First of all, we need an official website. At that time, we made a site by ourselves, pushing ah front-end technology Open Day, but this step looks at the cost, not a necessary option. In fact, some such as 100 ge activities, activity line registration site will provide a relatively simple registration site.
At that time, it chose The Baig activity, which can provide a more formal registration system, which is fully enough to use. You can also choose the activity line, which is similar. Basic are free, the main focus of the following SMS service, this needs less cost.
It is important to send e-tickets via text message to participants after registration, since registration is mostly done by mobile phone number. Text alerts the week before the meeting, text alerts the day before the meeting. At that time, the registration and attendance were compared, and the attendance rate was 60%. In order to ensure a certain attendance rate, this step is essential.
Publicity figure
Online communication map includes: 1. Event name, 2. Qr code for registration, 3. Activity time, 5. Sharing theme and introduction, 6. Speaker profile picture, 7. Countdown, 8. The company logo.
Our publicity lasted nearly 3 weeks, and we planned to do it in 3 waves. Therefore, a single instructor will distribute a picture. For more mystery.
A whole map was made and all the people were summarized. After the single lecturer map was issued, the distribution was carried out.
On the channel
The online distribution channels choose nuggets, which are popular in the front end circle, as well as OSChina and SegmentFault, which have more convenient activity cooperation entrances. As long as you follow their requirements, you can launch.
There is also the power of friends, wechat group forwarding.
We could consider using some wechat public accounts in the industry for cooperation, but we had no choice at that time, because the registration through the above channels was enough.
“Output of this section” : the way of registration, the making of publicity pictures and the selection of channels.
The late feedback
It was evening when the activity ended. Some friends on the scene initiated a question and answer session of Zhihu. What kind of experience was it to participate in the Tuah Front End Open Day? – zhihu. Through the q&A of Zhihu, we have gained relatively positive feedback, which is a reference for the next technical salon.
On that day, we need to distribute the sorted photos, and we can spread the activity through the second circle of friends through the participating students to expand the influence.
After the event, the wechat group needs to be specially maintained. We can send out some technical articles of the team and some recruitment information about the company on a regular basis through the team’s official account.
Subsequently, I reported the meeting on the official account of the company through the marketing colleagues of the company, which improved the influence of the team inside and outside the company.
Later, according to the feedback from HR, many students who came to send resumes mentioned their strong interest in the technology Open Day, so they considered the interview. This has not been quantified, but it is enough to show that a technology salon can be valuable to technical teams in small and medium-sized companies.
conclusion
Hope the above helps if you want to join a tech salon. To run a technical salon well, you need to put a lot of energy, including time, effort, every link to spend mind to conceive, every detail to ensure that can not be omitted. But it’s not that hard. You can do it with your heart.