CRUTECH Ingressive Community Maiden Event
I had always wanted to play a bigger role in the tech community as I was tired of just being a mere attendee. I wanted to be a speaker, an organizer or play any other backbone role. Ingressive came up with the campus ambassadorship program which I saw on twitter and this was an opportunity to start from my immediate environment . The CRUTECH Ingressive community currently has three ambassadors; myself, Joseph Bassey, Aghedo Joseph Femi and we all applied without inquiring from each other. The drive was not in me alone after all.
We were very keen on impressing as we have always watched the successes of other tech community events. We started planning as soon as we were confirmed ambassadors. They say proper prior planning prevents poor performance. We shared tasks very early which made planning easy and successful.
We hustled the best venue possible within the campus for this event, and I have to say this was the toughest part as they were so many protocols and stakeholders involved.
Creating awareness was another tug of war. Events like this are rare in the Campus and as such we had to go the extra mile in making it convincing and appealing to its target audience. We designed an awesome flier, printed it, and used it to make some noise on social media. 😃
We also went ahead to print tags for the speakers to further hype it.
The event was fixed for 3rd Nov., 2017 and this was like a day of reckoning for us. It was like a “Proof of Ministry” day. We started at the stated time and we had an overwhelming attendance from the start of the event.
We had four speakers at the event. First up was myself who opened the show with a keynote on “Growing As A Software Developer Through Communities”. This was a formal charge to the members of the community to get involved and make active contributions in communities in any way possible.
The second speaker was a another ambassador by name Joseph Bassey who spoke and taught about “Version Control With Git & GitHub”. This was quite new to the audience as only about 10% of the attendees had heard of this before. But I would say, he presented it to them in basic steps.
The third speaker was a Node JS engineer, Emeka Ekene who spoke about APIs and its use in developing world class applications.
Finally, another ambassador Aghedo Joseph Femi took on the stage to talk about “Building Software With Great User Experience”. We had Kahoot sessions in between the talks and the winners went home with GitHub stickers. The event ended in grand style with refreshments provided for all the attendees. 😋
Organizing this was stressful i must confess but this has given me great exposure and I have to say it was a lovely experience! I am looking forward to replicating this more often.
You can find some more pictures from the event here
