Notes from tonight's discussion

[Brent Miller]

Here are the notes (that are not actually finalized, just a snapshot up for further discussion).

PDX.rb responsibilities

# REMEMBER

1. Education
2. Entertainment
3. Inspiration

* Can we automate?



# CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES (By date descending)

* Create future events in Calagator (duplicate existing ones)
Dana / Chris H

* Lightning talk reminderer / topic announcer (1-2 weeks before)
Jonan / Levi

* Find and cultivate speakers for the next meetings
* Badger the speaker 2 weeks ahead of time
* Remind the speaker 1 week ahead of time
* Send a thank you to all the speakers while they are talking
Dana / Chuck / Levi

* Send out a meeting announcement email a week or more before the meeting
* Send out a day-of reminder on twitter, email, and on slack in #announcements
Shawna / Rico

* Update the meeting slides that show during the pre-talk socializing time. (https://github.com/pdxruby/preshow)
Sam / Nate

* Make/send out other PDX tech announcements that might be of interest (OS Bridge, Coder Social, etc.)
Sam / Joey

* Greeter
* Headcounter
Chuck / Dana / Chris H / Ryan / Nick

* Cleaner-upers
* Taking extra pizza to Right2DreamToo (R2D2)
Brent / Nick

* Make the opening meeting announcements.
Jonan / Chuck / Brent / Nick / Shawna

* Getting the videos recorded, posted, and announced
Rico / Joey

* Securing space, pizza, drinks
Brent / Chuck

* Meeting format changes
subcomittee in #meeting-structure in Slack

* Restart Ruby Brightnight
Nate / Begin


# IDEAS

* New rubyist translator / discussion room
* Take notes at the meetup
* Take photos at the meetup and tweet them
* Bringing toys or projects to play with
* Traveling speaker finding
* Applause for anyone who made an open source commit
* Volunteer recognition time
* Presentation improvement advisor
* CoC committee members


# QUESTIONS

* Should pizza/beer sponsorship beget air-time? How much?
* Is presenter the only style for us?


# Things companies could sponsor

* Beer
* Pizza
* Snacks
* Speaker-related expenses
* Meeting location
* Scholarships to conferences or code school


# Agile brigade

As a Ruby meetup group,
I want to encourage the Ruby community to be awesome




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Brent Miller
Owner and Principal
Foliosus Web Design LLC
http://foliosus.com/

"The problem is that once you have done away with the
ability to make judgments as to right and wrong, true
and false, etc., there's no real culture left. All
that remains is clog dancing and macrame."
-- Neal Stephenson
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