April Mozilla Learning Community Call: IoT [Planning]

[KGorr]

Let's host April's Internet of Things Community Call in style!

April 20, 11 AM ET/ 4pm UTC/ 5pm CET/ 9:30pm IST

Monthly Community Call Planning Template

Call Curator To-Do List: @thornet

• [x] Solidify date/time on Mozilla Ed Hub Editorial Calendar
• [x] Book 2-3 speakers (cc Kristina on confirmation emails)
  • [x] Template logistics email to send speakers AFTER they are booked here. Highlighted in yellow are the details you’ll need to change.
• [x] Prepare paragraph summary of call content & speakers (for marketing)
• [x] Confirm agenda
• [ ] Invite participants
  • [x] Send information to Mozilla Learning for the team to share across the network.
  • [x] Sending a personalized email to your network 1-2 weeks before the call urging those who might be interested in the topic to attend will help increase participation.
  • [ ] Send call invite templates or tweets to your speakers for them to share with their network.
• [x] Add the agenda to the Etherpad

Production To-Do List: @kgorr Pre Call

• [x] Set up new G+ event page
• [x] Create new etherpad template
• [x] Send new live stream embed code & landing page copy to programmers https://github.com/mozilla/teach.mozilla.org/issues/1752
• [x] Add speakers & call details to youtube page/G+ page as soon as it is available
• [x] Write and distribute marketing communications
• [x] Monday before call, Hives to send reminder to Slack/Listserve (ping them)
• [x] Set up relevant Discourse threads to point people to during the call as a place to continue the discussion

Day of Call:

• [x] Hives, @MozTeach, MLN team to tweet reminder
• [x] Broadcast/produce HOA live!

Post Call:

• [x] Send thank you emails to speakers (day-of)
• [x] Follow participants on Twitter from @MozTeach
• [x] Tweet mass thank you to participants
• [x] Compile engagement report
• [x] Write and post call summary blog post

[KGorr]

@thornet, can we merge https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/iot/issues/17 with this one?

[KGorr]

• Announcement blog post: https://blog.webmaker.org/april-mozilla-learning-events
• Tweets drafted (soon to be scheduled)
• Team Calendar invitation sent
• Sample tweet and request for share out added to next week's team call agenda
• Discourse thread: https://discourse.webmaker.org/t/april-2016-community-call-iot/749

[KGorr]

Ping @thornet - can you update this ticket ASAP? Thanks!

[KGorr]

Blog article recap is ready for @thornet and @ldecoursy here.

[KGorr]

Blog post published: https://blog.webmaker.org/addressing-the-internet-of-things-iot-community-call

Closing and moving to #394.