[BNM] SkillSwap

[Barry Bloye]

On 10/01/07, Jonathan Hirsch wrote:

> So people - don't let thinking you have the same skills as everyone
> else stop you from volunteering ;-)


Yeah, there will always be plenty of people who are interested in what
you've got to talk about.

Andy - I may have said this before, but I'd be quite interested in
> the occasional case study type Skillswap session, as well as the
> specific skills ones. E.g. where people talk about how they set about
> tackling a particular design problem, or how they grew their business
> from a one-man band to multi-million pound company (and back again,
> no doubt ;-) or what they did when a client project went wrong, or
> whatever.
>

Sounds interesting to me. You can't beat a good case study for getting your
points across!

Also, how about bunching some mini-SkillSwaps together or having a somewhere
(other than BNM, of course) where people can find others who want to talk
about similar things? I'm sure it'd be easier to get people to volunteer for
a short talk or part of a group thing and much less daunting than a
full-length solo effort.

Andy, what range of subjects do you see SkillSwap covering in the future?
Mainly Web-oriented skills and business stuff, or other computer media-type
things?

Cheers,
Baz