Drumbeat/events/toronto/training/stickies
From MozillaWiki
- Event format
- an event to get people involved in existing projects
- Trojan horse: a party with a huge demographic that sneakily deputizes people
- Interactive/art/hacker set pieces; a room of joy and love and chaos to get people excited /aquainted with other people
- Drumbreat project incubators; set the stage, step back and show and tell at the end of the day. Bar camp on steriods, American idol for open web has a multilingula event ever been tried
- find out about people ahead of time (via short questionnaire) and pair them with their foils. ask for project ideas at the end of the night
- what are some other exercise to expose who's in the room?
- event idea - here's a beer, let's just hang out. Awesome ensues
- how do you engage remote participants at a participatory event?
- How can you get back on track effectively if time/topic get out of hand?
- Outreach
- what are some best practices to find the unusual suspects?
- How to self-regulate eg. alienating, intimidating language
- How do you make each volunteer experience valuable?
- Drumbeat meta- software:
- Some mechanism to alert people, as they surf the web of ways they can help build open web
- how can you recruit sponsors for a local event?
- how can we reach out and collaborate with other/existing open web gourps and projects?
- How do we better telling the maker-doer drumbeat story
- how to find better longterm opportunities across sectors
- Projects
- Introduce structure to good ideas; how to get them actually started...
- Job board for coders
- Follow Up
- How do we turn volunteers into ambassadors?
- What is the follow up to drumbeat event participants
- How is Drumbeat event success defined?
- What's the Ask: How do we get people to commit?
- how can you keep the energy up post-event? encourage follow up activities
- How can you get great photos, videos and blogs out of your event within 24 hours?
- How do you make sure you have longterm engagement?
- How do we use drumbeat events to a) move existing projects forward, b) get great new projects into the pipeline
- Resources
- Share tools and diverse event models that bring different communities together?
- What kin dof support is offered to local organizers?
- What resources are out there to support understanding (of the open web)?
- Facilitation
- What are the queues to know that people have run out of steam?
- How to win back the crowd, crowd psychology?
- What is the best way to hand over control to the participants?
- What are the must have drumbeat components / toolkits?
- How do you drill in without being overbearing?
- How do we associate Drumbeat events with: Fun, Celebration, Performance, Festival AND NOT - A Dry conference
- We would like more tips to divide folks into groups to brainstorm.
- How do unfacilitate the other facilitators? In the room
- How do you keep folks on track from drumbeat?
- How do you differentiate between tangent and a good idea?
- How to mix hands-on practical learning + demonstration with theory
- People
- How do you manage a toxic personality?
- How do you tease out quiet people without embarrassing them?
- How best to balance time constraints with desire / need to empower the quiet folk
- How do we keep balance but still focus on doing things?
- How best to deal with loud mouthed contrarians and hecklers?
- What to do if you sense a clique forming?
- Politices & Issues
- How do we make the case and strike the balance to our community for Open Tools & Tech vs. Facebook / Twitter / Flash
- How to build a long term vision for open web that is sustained by aligned sectors.
- How can we demonstrate practical benefit of open web?
- What to say when someone asks why are we doing this / whats the motivation (beyond 'cause its important)
- Let's brainstorm about examples (concrete) of open web vs closed web?
- What is / does canada's position on the open web?
- Why isn't Mozilla unionized? :P
- Diversity / Relevance
- How do we help attendees, people from different backgrounds to identify and create new projects?
- How to promote the divirsity within Drumbeat?
- How do we get more diversity into drumbeat?
- How can you do great outreach to get unusual suspects to your event?
- What are the best ways to get non-typical people to attend an event?
- How can diverse practices from communities be brought together to reveal the open web?
- How will diverse sectors use open web ideas?
- How do you take local culture into consideration?
