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Hi, my name is Michael.

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So, what is Engineers.SG?


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Engineers.SG is a not-for-profit community 
initiatve that I created two years back

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to help document the Singapore tech and
startup scene

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So basically, you can find all the videos
on Engineers.SG.

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If you've been to any of the meetups,
you've seen me lugging around

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a suitcase of some sorts.

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Why did I create Engineers.SG?

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Many years ago, somebody irritated me 
by asking me: "Where are the engineers?"

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So i was like... I felt that was a 
marketing problem?

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[Laughter]

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We were not promoting ourselves 
well enough?


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[...]

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When I was a teenager, I was into 
videography

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I wanted to start my own little podcast 
with some of the bloggers in our midst.

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I thought it would be a good thing 
to have to record the different meetups

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so that people who have never been to 
any of the meetups can and watch it

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and get a sense of how the community
is like, and for new people

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who are joining the tech industry, they
can watch these videos and get a sense

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of the community, the people that we have 
in the community, and the kind of things

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we talk about, the things that we geek
out about. Like today, we're geeking out

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about Bluetooth and ESP Chips. 
Pretty cool.

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These are some of the meetups that we have
recorded - this is not an exhaustive list.

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You can go to our website, there's a very 
long list of organizations.

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Some numbers - we have about 600 videos 
on our website now.

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We started doing this in 2013. Our website
gets around 14k page views per month.

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I've recorded 12 conferences so far. Upcoming things: 
pyconSG, RedDotRubyConf, AgileConf,

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WordCampSG, and PHPConf this year 
will probably be recorded by me as well.

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So it will be pretty cool.

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So why am I here talking to you today?