We coordinate all our information around talks on gihub at lnug/speakers.
All speakers must create an issue and these should be reviewed, approved and scheduled by more than one LNUG organiser.
The talk proposal is what goes on the website - so sometimes it needs editing before generating the website.
Some pointers:
- Be helpful and kind to potential speakers - help them shape their talk into something great that everyone will like. These are the lifeblood of our events.
- Encourage people you know to make a talk proposal - we always need more speakers
- Consider keeping a talk ready yourself - you never know when a speaker can't make it last minute, and we have 120 attendees wanting to hear someone.
- Lightning talks are good too - this can be a great way to get new speakers involved.
- Promote diversity in speakers
- Spread you planning - don't overload the lineup for a meetup - talks can be scheduled months in advance and it's OK. It also leaves some space and opportunity to add rockstar and/or diversity speakers closer to the meetup, should they turn up unplanned.
There are guidelines to talks - most important is they are 20-25 minutes maximum - and that speakers agree to the Code of Conduct - I usually add the following in conversation and feedback on the proposal issues:
a couple things we need to confirm:
- [ ] Length of talk - needs to be 20-25 mins.
- [ ] Code of Conduct - as part of our community we need to make sure all speakers agree with that - see https://lnug.org/code-of-conduct.html
There's a website repos - be sure to study the readme there for building and updating the website.
We coordinate all our attendees, rsvps etc at meetup.com/london-nodejs/.
Let me know if you want to be added to the organisers list there.