Hi, my name is Michael.
So, what is Engineers.SG?
Engineers.SG is a not-for-profit community initiatve that I created two years back
to help document the Singapore tech and startup scene
So basically, you can find all the videos on Engineers.SG.
If you've been to any of the meetups, you've seen me lugging around
a suitcase of some sorts.
Why did I create Engineers.SG?
Many years ago, somebody irritated me by asking me: "Where are the engineers?"
So i was like... I felt that was a marketing problem?
[Laughter]
We were not promoting ourselves well enough?
[...]
When I was a teenager, I was into videography
I wanted to start my own little podcast with some of the bloggers in our midst.
I thought it would be a good thing to have to record the different meetups
so that people who have never been to any of the meetups can and watch it
and get a sense of how the community is like, and for new people
who are joining the tech industry, they can watch these videos and get a sense
of the community, the people that we have in the community, and the kind of things
we talk about, the things that we geek out about. Like today, we're geeking out
about Bluetooth and ESP Chips. Pretty cool.
These are some of the meetups that we have recorded - this is not an exhaustive list.
You can go to our website, there's a very long list of organizations.
Some numbers - we have about 600 videos on our website now.
We started doing this in 2013. Our website gets around 14k page views per month.
I've recorded 12 conferences so far. Upcoming things: pyconSG, RedDotRubyConf, AgileConf,
WordCampSG, and PHPConf this year will probably be recorded by me as well.
So it will be pretty cool.
So why am I here talking to you today?