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- CLS-in-a-Box: In this session, we will reflect on our experiences organizing CLS West with a focus on how to package up this information in a way that would make it easy for community leaders in other areas to organize their own regional CLS events in the future. (Van Riper)
- Community Goes Global: Tactics, Tips, and Trip-up points for taking a community from local to national and then to international. What works? What doesn't? (Rachel Luxemburg)
- Heart for Community: There are endless blogs to read if you want to learn the ins and outs of community management. Tools, checklists, howtos, etc are abundantly available. But, how do you develop a heart for community? (Thomas Knoll)
- Technology Apprentice Program (TAP): The Silicon Valley GTUG had a pilot TAP program in 2009. I would like do discuss expanding it across multiple technology user groups locally. The idea is to connect local technology professionals with local college students in a mentor/apprentice relationship for small summer projects. This can either be to contribute to an open source project or possibly doing a small project for a local non-profit organization. In the fall, we celebrate the successfully completed projects at a meeting where the students can give lightning talks about what they did over the summer. (Van Riper)
- Using Video for Community Communication Video can be an amazingly effective and efficient means of sharing information within and outside of a community - and video doesn't have to be difficult, expensive, or time-consuming to create and distribute. Deirdré Straughan, a community strategist and social media producer at Sun Microsystems, has filmed, edited, and published a LOT of video. You can see many examples here. This session will be mostly very practical: equipment suggestions, tips and techniques, editing, hosting... (Deirdré Straughan)
- Grow your Group Globally with live Voice Over Internet (VOIP) meetings. You can grow your group by having live global simultaneous attendees at your meetings via Voice Over Internet. Learn the practical tools to use - software & hardware, both for individuals (clients) & server. People can connect from phones (land line & cell) & computers running Windows, MacOS, & GNU(Linux). ...There are free (no money $ cost) VOIP servers available that enable your members to communicate live, globally. ...Learn from the experiences of the Global Free Software, Hardware & Culture group, BerkeleyTIP. We have had perfect voice clarity throughout the USA, Europe, & to Iran. ...You may schedule your meetings simultaneous with any of the 4 BTIP monthly meetings, & in this way become part of, & gain synergy with, a global community VOIP based conference. :) ... http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ ...Other tools we can discuss are live video, slides, & document sharing, & InternetRelayChat. (giovanni_re)
- Games for Democracy use Innovation Games techniques for the benefit of not-for-profit, government or other public interest organizations. Learn how to transfer the qualitative, participatory-design research methods from the corporate sector to citizen and community-led organizations. (Nancy Frishberg and Luke Hohmann)
Topics you'd be interested in learning about
Suggestions for topics that you want to learn about are also welcome. With this group, there is bound to be someone with the expertise to facilitate a discussion on just about any topic.
- Reducing Event Carbon Footprint: user group events in the bay area are notorious for generating lots of waste. For example, we had 2000 disposable plastic water bottles discarded on the first day of Silicon Valley Code Camp this year. We can do better, but, how do we go about it without making it a huge burden on user group event organizers? (Van Riper)
