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 and/or event and update "main" and "Melbourne" pages
- 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)
- Setup EtherPad for committe meetings like this example <== TODO add example
- 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