[Events] Publicity plan for "In-Person Event Handbook"

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hey all,

Shauna & others put together an amazing document here: 
http://opensource-events.com/

To explain what it is, here is how it starts: "It seems like every day 
there’s another workshop, hackathon or sprint, where open source projects 
are invited to work with new contributors. At OpenHatch, we’ve run plenty 
of these events ourselves! We’ve found that to get the most out of an 
event, it’s important to plan ahead."

The handbook is a guide to what you need to run a newcomer-oriented sprint 
that is well-organized and therefore more effective.


For the handbook to be make an impact on the free software world, we need 
to make sure people actually use it. Therefore, I believe we should set 
some goals around *publicity* and *use* for the guide, so that we know we 
actually have that impact.


To get the ball rolling, I propose the following. During 2014:

* We make sure organizers of at least 8 significant events (other than 
Open Source Comes to Campus) that could benefit from the Handbook hear 
about its existence.

* We make sure at least 3 significant events (other than Open Source Comes 
to Campus) recommend the Handbook as a good way for participating projects 
to prepare for the event.

* We document the above 3 events that recommended the Handbook within the 
Handbook itself, by the end of 2014.

I'll define "significant" as "having 40 or more attendees", just to have 
an arbitrary and vaguely satisfactory way to measure that. It's OK by me 
if an event *series* has 40 or more attendees, if the organizers of the 
event series recommend it.


Shauna, I'm also curious what you think with setting these as goals. Once 
we have them as goals, I would be super happy to see this meta-outreach 
effort done by you, you + me, or any combination of people, so long as we 
do it. (-: I think that getting in the faces of organizers of events that 
might benefit from the Handbook is an essential part to succeeding at 
making the Free world better at outreach.

I'm happy to help brainstorm what might be relevant events and organizers 
to reach out to, but wanted to make sure we're all generally on-board.

-- Asheesh.