Re: Input for talk?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Claudia Rauch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hosting a short session at http://geekgirlmeetup.de/ on September
> 15th. I will recycle my talk from FSCONS last year, on how to organize
> and run successful sprints [1], but since I assume that not everyone
> in the audience will be a developer or contributor to a FLOSS project,
> I want to put a bit of a different twist to the talk - something like
> "why should you organise a meeting/sprint" and how you can pull it off
> easily.
>
> Do any of you have some input for this? Maybe also something
> especially from a female perspective?

Hey :)

Here's a few things that come to my mind right now:
* you get to know people
* people get to know you
* it's a task that developers are usually thrilled about someone else
taking it -> they will love you
* you learn a lot about organizing and planning
* it's one way to give back to Free Software in an essential way
without writing code
* you get to show your city/country to a bunch of awesome people from abroad
* language skills++
* people skills++

Cheers
Lydia

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