Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Northwest Vision and Media and digital talent

[Tim Dobson]

Tim Dobson wrote:
> Oh, I really recommend joining Manchester Digital if you are in the 
> area, but contrary to what was stated you can get a free account without 
> a .ac.uk email. If you are interested in finding out, let me know.

I probably should have explained this better.

If you are near Manchester (if you aren't it probably isn't worth 
joining)) then it is a really interesting thing to be part of.
They are a trade association of small to medium sized businesses based 
in and around Manchester.

They are worried about talented young people leaving the northwest and 
heading for London, but in my opinion, they don't really have a clue 
what to do about it, though perhaps I am unnecessarily critical.

To become a memeber for free you need a .ac.uk email address which you 
get at most universities. If you are pre-university then, in my 
experience, you can still join for free.

In my case, I sent this email to address@hidden:

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Hi,

I'm an active part of Manchester's digital community;
I helped setup DFEY, I help organise Manchester Free Software meetings, 
I go to BSD UG, meetings attend GeekUps, co-working days etc...

However, I am an AS level student, and therefore unfortunately don't 
have a .ac.uk email address necessary to join Manchester Digital as a 
student member.

As I assume that you aren't deliberately trying to discourage 
pre-university students to get involved, I wonder if we could work out 
an alternative way of verifying my educational status, so I can join 
Manchester Digital as a student member.

Thanks,

Tim

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I was hoping for some sort of email conversation about how they wanted 
all young people interested in tech or at least somebody asking me to 
prove who I went to college.

Instead, they ignored me for several months, and then sent me a "Your 
Password has been reset" email with my username and password in it...

I think you could get away emailing them just the middle paragraph and 
the last paragraph, or perhaps just the middle paragraph and a paragraph 
why you want to be a member.

If anyone has any problems trying to become a student member of 
Manchester Digital, I would be very interested to hear about it.

Cheers,

Tim

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