The document discusses the importance of training and education for keeping skills relevant in the modern information age, and proposes that hackerspaces provide an ideal environment for both online and in-person learning through workshops, collaboration with others, and opportunities to develop teaching skills and potentially start education businesses. Trainings at hackerspaces allow participants to acquire practical skills, network with people of similar interests, and gain experience that could lead to jobs or projects.

1. Trainings and
education
@ hackerspaces
Kalin Chernev, init Lab, Sofia

2. Agenda
● Introduction
● Trainings
● Online education
● Education at hackerspaces
● My call ;)

3. Living in an information age
Do you agree?
Do we need to keep with the information age?
How can we keep up?

4. Trainings (and education)
Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and
competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or
practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful
competencies.
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in
which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are
transferred from one generation to the next through
teaching, training, research,

5. What is important?

6. But, why?
Because:
In business:
There will be a point, where you will have
to get the shitty work done! (yourself)
In your work:
New technologies, new requirements, new
frameworks, very dynamic environment
As a freelancer:
one-man army (at most cases)

7. Education and training are sexy
10% of each startup pitches are about building
or starting education platforms
Education is trending topic (in Bulgaria)

8. Online learning

9. Facing the cons of OLP
Exercises are not always really practical
Slow communication and Q&A
Lack of personal touch

10. Education @hackerspaces
● Healthy environment of smart people
● Personal attitude during and after trainings
● Place to meet people with similar interests
● Place to gather a team and work on a project
● Place to get hired if you do well

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13. Entrepreneurship
● Raising skills & capabilities in the community
● Gathering teams with technical skills
● Developing products
● Developing personal skills

14. Become a trainer!
● Make the product YOUR way
● Contribute to the overall tech environment
● Hire the best students in a course if you like
● Become a well-known expert in your area
● Develop your presentation skills ;)
● $ if you are really good

15. Thank you
Kalin Chernev
email: kalin.chernev@gmail.com
twit: @kalinchernev
link: linkedin.com/in/kalinchernev
blog: shtrak.eu/kalata