Name: Hardware Engineering SNAFU Stories Sharing Time + Meet & Greet!
Start: 2023-10-24T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-10-24T18:00:00-07:00

Come vent about your physical product dev horror stories and meet other nerds online October 24, 2023, 5PM Pacific/8PM Eastern!

Against all my desires for amazing content, this meeting will **NOT be recorded** so you can openly share about your dumpster-fire catastrophe stories in physical product development.

What stories might You share for inclusion in the collection of tales in the works, ***Engineering SNAFU, Volume 1: Stories of Noteworthy Atrocities at Factories Unveiled***, which [you can submit to here on OddEngineer.com](https://www.oddengineer.com/articles/your-submissions-to-engineering-snafu-volume-1-stories-of-noteworthy-atrocities-at-factories-unveiled)?

**Deadline for submission:** October 31, 2023

Brainstorm during the meeting!

**Agenda:**
1\. 30\-second round the room **intros** sharing your name and engineering specialty
2\. taking turns sharing short **Engineering Gone Wrong stories** related to manufacturing/physical product development
3\. any **questions about how you can contribute** to the upcoming book

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Erin McDermott runs [OddEngineer.com](https://www.oddengineer.com/), a [SpireStarter.com](https://spirestarter.com/) project, where freelance hardware engineer members can use tools like:

1. a paid consulting appointment booking calendar to be shared and advertised on their company pages and social media
2. publishing their own value-add articles that Erin will make additional content about for promotion to Spire Starter/Odd Engineer's social media channels
3. publishing their own podcast that Erin will make additional content about on social media
4. being featured on the Odd Engineer podcast that also gets social media love
5. inclusion in the directory

 and its parent company, [Spire Starter](https://spirestarter.com/), where she is a freelance optical engineer specializing in illumination design and other non-imaging optical systems.

Erin also authored the book found on [Odd Engineer here](https://www.oddengineer.com/swag), that teaches hardware engineers how to build their brand from scratch to attract paying clients, titled: ***FREELANCER’S FRAMEWORK, GUIDEBOOK 1: BUILDING BRAND***

BTW: She'll be compiling the book of SNAFU stories that this meeting is about!

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