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Hi all,
Can't believe it's already October! Going to keep this update super short.
Last week was particularly tough and scattered, @paked moved back home from SF -> Sydney, @msw got some new website features started, and I wrangled together two grant proposals.
Stats:
General update: we're expanding the global HQ team and had our first real meeting last week. Say hi to @athul, @mj66, and @lachlanjc (they're joining @paked, @msw, and myself)!
Recommended reading (this week's theme is the wonderful world we live in): The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial.
- @zrl
It’s a Max episode! Now that Zach and Harrison have given updates, I figured I’d try writing this week’s.
Here’s a list of all the new bells and whistles we’ve got in store for you fine folks:
@orpheus command! As a leader, you can automatically add anyone who uses your invite link to your club’s usergroup. Find out how to use it by running @orpheus help and finding it in the list of commands.And here are some of the misc changes we’ve made:
For anyone who isn’t following the #shipit channel on Slack, I wanted to show off some project highlights I’ve seen in there:
Now onto the stats! This week, 24 clubs met across 14 states and 4 countries. In total, 352 members were in attendance. We’ve onboarded 3 new clubs that will increase that number in the next few weeks.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good treasure hunt, so instead of wrapping this up with 3 links this week, I figured I’d leave you with a clue instead:
There's a hidden message in the new Slack features. You’ll get the gist of it when you see it.
Zach’s fallen asleep after crunching on a grant proposal for 30 hours straight, so it’s Harrison here to write the weekly Hack Club update.
Before we return back to our normally scheduled content, I wanted to talk about some changes the staff decided to make to the Slack (hopefully going live around the time this gets sent out). So, here we go:
@hackbot is now @orpheus (you all know Orpheus right? He's the last dinosaur in existence... who also happens to be our mascot).#meta has become #hq, and #random is now #lounge. We’re hoping the new names are much clearer for people who just joined the Slack.We also turned our Slack invite page into a fully fledged Slack sign-up page. I’ll try skipping the boring technical mumbo-jumbo, but basically we create your account for you using a temporary email address, set some sane defaults, and then change the email address to the original one which you requested (ie. not the temporary one).
Stats:
Instead of the normal reading list, I’m going to include some of my favourite photos of cute animals that I’ve found browsing the internet this week (although if you really want something to read, I’d suggest this article).
School year is getting started! We had 6 new clubs start meeting last week, leaving us at 12 clubs actively meeting so far.
Congratulations to Mason High School (@megan, @anniewang, and @cravend) for having the highest attendance last week, with 70 attendees at their first meeting.
Stats:
Community:
Content:
Misc:
@hackbot gif goats in #random to try it out.And this week's reading list (this week's theme is the first amendment):
- @zrl
School year is starting:
Community:
Content:
Partnerships:
Misc:
And, to cap things off, a reading list (this week's theme is thinking deeply):
- @zrl