hi everyone,

you may have heard of "today i learned," our wildly successful co-learning-teaching one-off workshops that take place every saturday: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned

since the launch of TIL in January we've held over 20 workshops on topics that range from jewelry-making to today's statistics with doodles. many thanks to everyone who has facilitated a workshop, attended a workshop, suggested a workshop, promoted a workshop, and workshopped a workshop.

i've mostly been taking the lead on keeping the schedule filled up, encouraging people to do sessions, and promoting the TILs, but i need help!

we are not doing as well as we could be on really fulfilling the potential of the TILs. unfortunately i don't have the time to really give this project the love it deserves.

here are some of the tasks that we need help with to really have the TILs fulfill the original intended function: providing an easy way for new people to show up and participate in sudo room (while also sharing our knowledge with each other and improve our teaching techniques):

keeping the schedule filled up & encouraging sudoers and others to facilitate sessions

ideally we'd have at least a month ahead booked up so that we can prepare detailed schedules for distribution to local schools, after school clubs, etc.

promoting events

at the moment, we barely provide a week's notice for upcoming TILs. this is not enough lead time and as a result, they are often not as well attended as they could be.
promotions currently really only happen to channels that are likely to reach people who already know about us: via email lists, twitter, fb, and our blog. creativity in promotion (with different kinds of promotional activities for different TILs)
currently, i mainly promote the events with little participation on the part of the facilitator or larger sudo community. if we'd like to distribute responsibility for the promotion, it would be helpful to have a "how to promote your workshop" guide and provide other mechanisms to help make it easier to promote (blog post templates, flyer templates, etc.)

documentation

we should have been taking video of every workshop and putting it online. we have not done this. this would be a huge improvement.

who's in? XD

- marina