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Wikimania Hackathon 2023: Session Coordination
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Description

This task is setup to ensure support for all activities related to organizing sessions & workshops at Wikimania Hackathon 2023.

Volunteer roles

  • Ahead of the event familiarize yourself with the schedule sessions & workshops and their target audience and decide which session you will be interested in coordinating.
  • Help with taking notes, introducing the speaker, facilitating, and time checks during a session. We recommend taking notes on an Etherpad and transferring all relevant notes to the session's Phabricator task later. Add your name as a "Session coordinator" for a session in the schedule ( Add Link to Schedule).
  • Join the Wikimania Hackathon 2023 Volunteers Telegram channel and attend in person sync at the beginning of each day during the hackathon.

Coordinator roles

    • Encourage volunteers to add their name as a “Session coordinator” in the schedule for a session they are interested in helping with.
    • Help them get set up with a template for notetaking on the Etherpad.
    • Be a point of contact for the volunteer group and lead coordination efforts!
    • Reach out to potential volunteers informing them about their roles and responsibilities and asking them to subscribe to this Phabricator task to stay up to date.
  • Invite volunteers to join the Wikimania Hackathon 2023 Volunteers channel on Telegram.
    • Sync up with volunteers of your group at the beginning of each day during the event and provide the necessary support to volunteers & organizers.
    • After the event, ensure no volunteering-related task remains to be resolved on Phabricator. Send a thank you message to volunteers.