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* Ask past attendees & mentors & organizers! And when you ask, ask for nominations as well. They might know someone perfect.
 
=== Information & Skills Needed ===
 
These are the things you need to know and be able to do to be an effective meta-organizer.
 
=== Growing the Potential Event Organizers & Mentors List ===
 
Every event needs an organizer and some mentors. We need to keep growing the list of people so that people who would enjoy doing that are able to do it!
 
Information needed:
 
* A list of past organizers, friends, volunteers, and anyone you can think to askbe to organize ora mentor
* A list of past organizers who might be interested in organizing
* A list of colleges/universities you are willing to pingemail people at, often-- buteven notbetter necessarilyif withthere is a computer club or women in CS organization▼
* Other humans' suggestions for who to ask
 
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* Participation at events where you can recruit people to the list of potential organizers & mentors is hugely helpful
 
=== RecruitingActually Schools,recruiting Sponsors,event & Mentorsorganizers ===
 
Meta-organizers typically focus on recruiting organizers at schools. Many organizers are capable of finding reimbursement for a day's food expenses, which is usually the only direct financial cost.
 
This section talks about how to recruit both schools and sponsors; if you only care about schools, or only care about sponsors, that's fine. Note that many companies are interested in sending '''mentors''' even if they're not interested in sending money. Most events need mentors more than they need money!
 
Information needed:
 
▲* A list of colleges/universities you are willing to ping people at, often but not necessarily with a computer club or women in CS organization
* A list of companies possibly interested in sponsoring, and/or the creativity to think up people you know at companies that might want to sponsor an event
* Space / tech requirements for an event
* Benefits to hosting an event
 
Skills needed:
 
* Research skills to find new schools & sponsors
* Ability to email people you don't know
* Remembering to follow up
* Following up
* Keeping track of who you've asked, so you can follow up
 
=== Actually recruiting workshop organizers ===
 
Information needed:
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* Ability to keep track of who's been asked, when, and what they said (spreadsheet!)
 
=== MatchingHelping venuesorganizers withpick organizersa date ===
 
Information needed:
 
* VenueOrganizer's availability (and organizersometimes mentors's availability)
* WhereKnowledge of where to announce / postthe whenevent workshoponce isit's scheduled
 
Skills needed:
 
* Tolerance for email back-and-forth to determine date of workshopevent
 
=== Hosting organizer kick-off meeting ===
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