OK, another onboarding question:
What about when someone wants to get involved in a local event but not take a leading role?
We were contacted by Vic Jasin from London. Ontario:
“I would like to get in touch with folks of like mind in my area and prefer to work on projects and initiatives that are in my sphere of influence and my community vs. any global or broad scale/scope organising.”
My first idea for our process in these cases would be to:
- Encourage them to make a post in the forum (do we create a ‘Local Matchmaking’ thread for this purpose?)
- From Twitter and in the facebook group, linking to the post, we put out the word “Vic Jasin is looking for co-organizers in [London, Ontario](link to forum post)! Know any Ontarians who might be interested? Get in touch!”
- In cases where people don’t specifically rule out helping on a global level, we could also direct them to the global Call for Skills.