Talk:Five Minutes of Fame

Organizer Notes

For those who help organize 5moF, here are the steps we need to follow every month to party on:

• Volunteer coordination
  • 5moF needs more volunteers! Would you like to help organize/setup/invite speakers?
• Speaker soliciting
  • If we want excellent talks we can send a Five Minutes of Fame Speaker Invitation to the people who have interesting things to talk about.
  • Speaker nominating
    • Add names of speakers and possible topics that would rock the mic / share something that not enough people know about here...
    • Patrick - do a live crypto challenge in 5 minutes?
• Speaker scheduling
  • Use the 5moF Trello Board to track the speaker's queue. (Ask to join the Noisebridge trello team)
  • Respond to 5moF talk submission emails as they come in and add them to the speaker's queue
  • Select ~10 speakers at top of queue / who fit with the theme / with timely announcement talks or limited availability
  • Invite speakers to their upcoming talk opportunity and inform 1-2 others that they are next and to be there to fill in for MIAs
  • Put invitees back into the queue if they don't confirm and invite the next-ups to confirm the slots
• Week of event checklist:
  • The Monday prior, speakers will be reminded of commitment.
  • The night before 5mof another mail will ask for any slides or special setup speakers might need.
• Day of event checklist:
  • Open bottom gate
  • Mute Pegasus
  • Get mixer + mics working
  • Projector test
  • Light up podium
  • Parcans/house lighting
  • Chairs (all of them) (Q: Is there still a cache of chairs in basement?)
  • Pack of beer / pizza for help team
  • Extricate J from the elevator
  • Headcount to make sure no one was left in the basement