Responsibilities in Free Software Melbourne
The purpose of this list is to define the various responsibilities held by committee members.
- Participate on FSM website, wiki and mailing list
- Website: Post blog entries for meetup announcing speaker (see details below)
- Wiki: Post committee notes and generaly improve the space (good scout principle)
- Mailing list: Ensure you are enrolled and able to post messages to the "general" and "announce" lists
- Be involved in planning upcoming meetings and events
- Suggest potential speakers, events and activities for the group
- Be involved in promoting FSM and outreach to other groups
- Be a good advocat and role model for the group
- Bring groups attention to current and upcoming campaigns and events
- Liaise with other related groups
- Make and sell merchandise like stickers (RedBubble might be a good option, just design a sticker and profit)
- Setup EtherPad for committe meetings like this example (most meetings won't have everything, but the basic form)
- Prepare and setup audio recording for meetups
- Send out announcement emails at least one week before the meetup to the "announce" and "main" mailing lists
- Consider posting to Meetup.com, Pump.io, Diaspora or similar
- Consider preparing a short summary of the meet up for the blog
Example schedule:
- 6:30pm Welcome and introduce speaker
- 6:40pm Talk/discussion
- 7:10pm Q&A and topic discussion
- 7:30pm Gnews
- 8:00pm Leave
How to prepare an announcement:
- Prepare a blog with all information, links and attachments at http://freesoftware.org.au/admin/blog/blogpost/add/
- Check all links work
- I leave this open and copy paste into everything else to make sure it's all the same
- Add a link to the Main page: http://freesoftware.org.au/admin/pages/page/2/
- Add a link to the Melbourne page: http://freesoftware.org.au/admin/pages/page/7/
- Send out a Main mailing list email: free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au
- Send out an Announce mailing list email: free-software-melb-announce@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au
- Post a Meetup event: https://www.meetup.com/Free-Software-Melbourne/events/?action=new
- Publish on Diaspora, Pump and others to taste :D{: page-href="wiki:///rolesInFSM"}