<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Events on Afroleft</title><link>https://afroleft.com/tag/events/</link><description>Recent content in Events on Afroleft</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:28:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://afroleft.com/tag/events/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Back to School</title><link>https://afroleft.com/back-to-school/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/back-to-school/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I spent most of Wednesday helping out at Liverpool&amp;rsquo;s Cardinal Heenan School for an &lt;a href="http://cardinal-heenan.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=452&amp;amp;catid=34&amp;amp;Itemid=160&amp;amp;lang=en"&gt;Enterprise Day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Apart from having great fun and a school dinner, I worked with the students on a proper roll your sleeves-up day of taking a product from idea through to pitching a concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I think my quote wraps-up the day nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;First things first; taking a product from idea through to concept is more than difficult. Add to that a time constraint of a school day, product pitches, adverting campaigns and financial planning &lt;em&gt;and we&amp;rsquo;re really talking.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introducing Demo</title><link>https://afroleft.com/introducing-demo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/introducing-demo/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Together with &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/lucidmooner"&gt;Matt Richards&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;m organising an event in Liverpool on June 20th 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;With the hope of bringing together those working on tech products and ideas, &lt;a href="http://letsdemo.it"&gt;Demo&lt;/a&gt; asks a simple question; what are you working on?&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Hosted at &lt;a href="http://doesliverpool.com"&gt;DoES Liverpool&lt;/a&gt;, the event will be made up of a maximum of 6 demos with a short midway interval.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h3 id="loosely-held"&gt;Loosely Held&amp;hellip;&lt;/h3&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;As far as demoing is concerned, we welcome those at varying stages of development. From early ideas, right through to well established products. Extracted from the &lt;a href="http://letsdemo.it/#faq"&gt;Demo FAQs&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>