[sudo-discuss] help coordinate TILs!

[Marina Kukso]

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
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