Invitation: help me test an idea for organizer skills development?

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I apologize in advance for the short notice here! I am taking a vacation in August, but didn’t want to lose momentum on this idea.

I’m going to schedule a few times to try out this idea for an Organizer’s D&D / practice scenarios session.

If you are interested, whether you are an experienced organizer, or someone considering trying to organize a group for the first time… please comment on this post with the time/day they could join!

2300 UTC on 2 August
2300 UTC on 3 August
1600 UTC on 4 August
1600 UTC on 6 August

This will be a video call, in which I will give the group challenging scenarios, and ask you to come up with ideas for solutions you would try.

My goal for these meetings will be to test whether this idea might help WordPress organizers feel more confident when organizing events or communities — anyone, no matter what experience level you have in organizing, is welcome to join.

I’ll follow up as soon as possible with those who requested to join at the most popular times, and share a video link. If you can’t make it next week, don’t worry! This is just a quick “test of concept,” and if it’s successful, I’ll invite more people to help plan out a way to make this available to more people with more time to plan. 🙂

#experiment, #meetups-2

Andrea Middleton 10:43 pm on July 30, 2021

All right, friends, based on feedback we landed on these two times/days:

2300 UTC on 3 August
1600 UTC on 6 August

I’ll DM those who’ve said they’re interested, in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., with a Zoom link. There’s still time to “sign up” so if you’d like to join one or both sessions, please comment here!
Ulrich 8:37 pm on July 31, 2021

I read through the scenarios. I am interested to hear how you get on. Unfortunately, I can’t make the times next week.
- Andrea Middleton 4:17 pm on August 2, 2021
  
  No worries, @grapplerulrich — thanks for looking through the scenarios, anyway! I hope we’ll be able to test this more broadly in the weeks and months to come!

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