contributing

Contributing to the community

There are a number of ways you can contribute to the Montreal Elixir community.

• Contribute to the community website

• Prepare and present a talk

• Prepare and run a workshop

• Run an ElixirBridge Event

• Help members in the community slack channel #montrealelixir

• Find sponsors

• Contribute to the playbook

• Curate education trails

Running meetups

We also need help with running monthly meetups. Listed below are the different roles and their responsibilities.

Event Organizer

A person responsible for the preparation of the event. This typically begins as soon as the last event is over and involves:

• communicating the event on Meetup.com and

  Twitter

• managing the event using an issue on GitHub

• coordinating with the venue sponsor

• coordinating with the refreshments sponsor

• contacting and confirming the presenters via Meetup.com messaging and ensure all

  presentation details have been collected

Host

A person responsible for hosting the event. This involves:

• introducing and welcoming newcomers

• communicating venue related information

• presenting the event schedule

• introducing each presenter

Community Advocate

A person responsible for promoting ideas and resources that are helpful to community members. This involves a short presentation (~10 mins) at the meetup, but includes on-going communication through social media channels such as Twitter. Items that maybe of interesting to the community include:

• introduction to newcomers of assets are available; e.g. website, YouTube, etc

• updates to the community website or issues that need to be addressed

• new resources such as books and screencast

• blog posts of specific interest

• news about up-coming events

Videographer

A person responsible for recording presentations. For more information see the guide. This involves:

• setting-up equipment; e.g. sound checks

• recording presentations

• providing footage to the video producer

Video Producer

A person responsible for producing and publishing recordings of the presentations. For more information see the guide. This involves:

• producing the videos in ScreenFlow

• uploading videos to YouTube along

  with adding description and tags

• announcing their availability on Meetup.com and Twitter

Sponsor

A person/company responsible for providing a venue and/or covering the cost of refreshments.