Tracy Hinds & Catherine Lopez - SeattleJS Conference 2017
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Founders describe building a nonprofit called GatherScript and publishing an open source organizer handbook after running Cascadia, EmpireJS/Node, JSConfCO and ScaleConf; they give concrete playbooks for budgets, sponsorship outreach (IndieGoGo example), venue contracts, AV/transcription tradeoffs, and code-of-conduct execution (email aliases, safety crew, lawyer-reviewed reporting). Organizing roles include producers accountable for finances, organizers and volunteers; they recommend a minimum three organizers and estimate producers at 5–10 hours/week ramping to full time the week before the event. Outcomes include scholarships that led to jobs and sustained regional communities.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 0:29Keynote
- 1:45How Do You Grow Communities
- 2:30What Does It Mean To Maintain a Conference
- 5:21Why Did We Start
- 7:37First Engineering Gig
- 16:20Logistics
- 17:50Timeline
- 19:44People Being Human
- 24:18Producers
- 24:48Producer Roles
- 25:31The Organizers
- 25:54Roles for Organizers
- 26:38What To Look for When Recruiting an Organizer Producer
- 27:49Volunteers
- 29:52When To Step Away
- 30:42Culture of Teaching and Organizing
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