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* Ability to keep track of who's been asked, when, and what they said (spreadsheet!)
=== Helping organizers pick a date & create sign-up page ===
Information needed:
* Organizer's availability
* Availability of mentors if you know some who are tentatively interested in attending the workshop
* Knowledge of where to announce the event once it's scheduled (for example, events.openhatch.org)
Skills needed:
* Tolerance for email back-and-forth (or Google Hangouts meetings/phone calls) to determine date of event
* Willingness to convince the organizers they need a sign-up page
=== Hosting organizer kick-off meeting ===
Great events often start with a kick-off meeting between the '''meta-organizer''' and the '''organizer(s)'''. We often do this before the date is picked, but it's OK to do it after the date is picked.
Information needed:
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Skills needed:
* Ability to schedule
* Excitement
* Ability to answer questions about organizing
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Every Open Source Comes to Campus event needs mentors. The organizer is fundamentally responsible for getting a mentor involved, but they typically need help finding the mentors. That's where the meta-organizer comes in.
Information needed:
* List of people's names & email addresses & general info about them, who are possibly interested in mentoring
* Knowledge of what mentoring options are available
* General stuff about mentoring, to answer their questions
Skills needed:
* Ability to email prospective mentors, preferably with a suggestion of a ''specific'' mentorship task they'd be good at, CC:ing the event organizer(s)
* Willingness to follow up with prospective mentors if they don't reply
* Ability to stay organized with these emails
=== Making sure the event is actually being planned ===
Information needed:
* Date of the workshop
* Whether or not the organizers are planning the
Skills needed:
* Ability to follow up with organizers to make sure things are going okay
* Judgement to determine if one of the organizers is doing all the work, to see if you can help spread the load
* Communication skills to help resolve issues with organizers / mentors / venues should they arise
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