# Discourse 1-hour technical workshop
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636 "2021-10-21T08:55:27Z")
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### Author:  [@obml](https://meta.discourse.org/u/obml)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636/1 "2021-10-21T08:55:28Z")
**What would you like done?**
We’d love to discuss in a 1-hour online workshop how to add an Alumni network to an existing course, and also validate our current overall setup—with someone who (really) knows Discourse inside-out.
A bit of background
We are using Discourse for a small leadership class. Right now, we basically delete old participants when a new class starts. But people told us they want to stay on, at least for the chat. Perhaps we can do that–building a growing alumni network while running the class.
Put simply: We’ve become pretty good at running the Discourse interface. We have ambitions to grow our Discourse community. However, we lack the in-house skills to shape our technical Discourse strategy and execution of any resulting projects/tasks.
Three workshop questions:
- Is our current Discourse hosting setup optimal?
- Could we build a growing network, while running new classes on one Discourse installation, e.g. by giving and changing access rights
- How to improve our current Discourse environment even further.
We can provide details ahead of time.
As an output from the workshop, we’re seeking:
- A clear understanding of whether our current network expansion plan is technically possible and what would be required to bring this to life.
- Validation (or challenge) of our current way of working with Discourse, and tips on how we could do things differently or more effectively.
- A shortlist of new ideas on how we can improve our current community.
**When do you need it done?**
We’d like the workshop to take place by mid-November latest.
**What is your budget, in $ USD that you can offer for this task?**
For the 1-hour online workshop: 400 USD
_Any resulting work from the workshop to be discussed and agreed._
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ahmed_Gagan)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636/2 "2021-10-21T09:52:30Z")
I am interested to take this up, I can help you out with your questions. Sending you a PM.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636/3 "2021-10-21T10:11:27Z")
This is up my alley. I’m my former life I was a university professor who taught teachers to use technology in their classrooms. I’ll send a pm.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-hour-technical-workshop/206636/4 "2021-11-20T10:12:24Z")
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