{"id":3359,"date":"2021-04-21T20:13:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2021-04-21T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:13:38","slug":"historical-moment-first-estimating-open-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/21\/historical-moment-first-estimating-open-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical moment: First Estimating Open Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days ago I hosted a small open forum to any estimator that wanted to join. &#8220;Historical moment&#8221; might be a bit of an over-exaggeration, but there is nothing else out there right now. HCSS has webinars, but nothing where estimators can simply meet and discuss estimating topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-1024x673.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3360\" width=\"364\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-1536x1009.png 1536w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-19-at-1.47.21-PM-2048x1346.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three great estimators from two different companies, previous trainees of mine, jumped on and we discussed the new additions to HeavyBid, UGM, keeping intellectual property safe <strong>AND THEN<\/strong> we dove into some specific questions that they had. It was awesome.<br>I definitely want to host another forum in the future. One of the guys who came made a good point about keeping the size of the meetings small, so all the voices are heard. That&#8217;s a great idea.<br>Email my son if you want to be put on the email list for the next open forum! (Use the contact me page in the corner) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago I hosted a small open forum to any estimator that wanted to join. &#8220;Historical moment&#8221; might be a bit of an over-exaggeration, but there is nothing else out there right now. HCSS has webinars, but nothing where estimators can simply meet and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}