Workshops project

The HasGeek workshops project began with the Cartonama Workshop in March 2012, managed by Sajjad Anwar, and then took a long hiatus and resumed with a workshop series from March 2013, managed by Haris Ibrahim and Jamna Vyas. A pre-HasGeek OpenStreetMap Workshops initiative did not pan out.

Workshops in the series:


 * 1) Cartonama Workshop with Schuyler Erle and Mikel Maron in March 2012, https://workshop.cartonama.com/
 * 2) CSS for the Soul with Sunil Pai in March 2013, https://cssworkshop.metarefresh.in/2013-03/
 * 3) Pig workshop with Sudar Muthu in April 2013, https://pigworkshop.fifthelephant.in/
 * 4) Advanced Python workshop with Anand Chitipothu in May, August and November 2013, https://advancedpython.hasgeek.com/
 * 5) Responsive web design with Arpan Chinta in June and September 2013, https://cssworkshop.metarefresh.in/
 * 6) Git workshop with Noufal Ibrahim in July and September 2013, https://gitworkshop.hasgeek.com/
 * 7) Android workshop with Arunkumar Krishnamoorthy in October 2013, https://androidworkshop.hasgeek.com/

The workshop series is meant to be groundwork for a larger School of Geek project.

Learnings
In October 2013, Haris, Zainab and Kiran made notes on the pain points the workshops project had faced through 2013:


 * 1) Instructor discovery is manual. Content evaluation is manual and involves multiple reviewers, who have unclear motivation. The process is 100% outbound, not inbound.
 * 2) Workshop website (for promoting ticket sales) is built by HasGeek. This involves manual effort every time.
 * 3) Promotional efforts are poorly targeted and poorly documented, so the process is a hit or miss.
 * 4) The HasGeek workshop venue (shared with the BiteMe bakery) is suboptimal. Sunk cost prevents use of other spaces.
 * 5) Participants' sense of safety with refunds and guarantee of value for money is not properly addressed.