Toronto 🇨🇦 September 21, 2019

deniseyu commented 5 years ago

Organizers: Denise Yu, Spike Lindsey, Zach Goldstein, Mike Fridman, Max Gonzih

Venue: TBD

Date: September 21, 2019

Curriculum:

For organizer/s or sponsor

Logistic items

[x] Has venue and it sits this many people: ___
[x] Has sponsor for food and drinks
[x] Has organizer(s)
[x] Has teacher(s)
[x] Has date
[x] Course selected
[x] Draft of event started on Bridge Troll
[x] Included in the event description if bikes are allowed inside or not (ask venue)
[x] Included in the event description if child care is available or not

(Issue ready :dart: to be labeled as scheduled :boom::v::tada::balloon::rocket: after all tasks above are completed:exclamation:)

A couple weeks before the event

[ ] Order placed for catering, if applicable
[ ] Child care arranged for, if applicable

For GoBridge

First steps

[x] Self-assigned the issue
[x] Pinged the person who opened the issue
[x] Google Hangout scheduled (if this is a first timer)

Continue taking the actions necessary to bring issue to a scheduled status according to our issue workflow.

After event is labeled as `scheduled`

[x] Bridge Troll event made public; added event link to this thread
[ ] Opened a meetup event to point to the Bridge Troll event (RSVP on meetup should be closed)
[ ] Added a PR to add event to GoBridge's website (remove past events while at it)
[x] First social media announcement's gone out
[ ] Conducted organizer training
[ ] Conducted teacher training
[ ] Assignee added event date -1 week to calendar as reminder

For lead organizer

Presentations

[ ] Opening presentation forked, edited, and ready to present
[ ] Closing presentation forked, edited, and ready to present

Event date -1 week

[ ] Confirmed venue and date
[ ] More rounds of announcements on social media. Mention how many spots left

jboursiquot commented 5 years ago

Hi @deniseyu and thanks for stepping up to organize a workshop.

Part of my role is to support organizers like yourself throughout the process. I'm happy to get on a Hangout to talk through the steps and help you and your fellow organizers know what to expect.

If that sounds good, let's find a time in the next week or so to chat.

deniseyu commented 5 years ago

Thank you @jboursiquot, that would be really helpful! I can chat next week, let me ping the others to see if they can. By next week we will hopefully have a venue confirmed. I'll try to find you on the Gophers Slack to sort out a time.

deniseyu commented 5 years ago

@jboursiquot quick question - is it recommended to host an "install fest" sometime during the week before the workshop? For ClojureBridge I remember that we had a Friday evening optional event for attendees to make sure the laptops they planned to use were ready to go for Saturday morning. But maybe downloading Go or using a web-based IDE is a lot more straightforward than installing Clojure tools.

jboursiquot commented 5 years ago

@deniseyu honestly I think it would be helpful. Despite instructions sent weeks before the workshop, folks still tend to come in without Go installed or an IDE/text editor configured. If you can arrange to have an install fest ahead of the workshop, that would save us a ton of time on the day of.

deniseyu commented 5 years ago

I've started the draft event on Bridge Troll, just blocked on having Toronto added as a selectable chapter. Not sure if anyone other than me can see this, but it's at https://www.bridgetroll.org/events/483

jboursiquot commented 5 years ago

Done and done! Thanks again for leading the organization of this workshop @deniseyu. It was a great event and one we at GoBridge hope you and your co-organizers will hold regularly in your community.

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