This is a fantastic rundown Andy! Really encourage new groups to use all of this advice, and especially want to emphasize a common failure mode Andy mentioned that I have seen a lot:
‘Do not reinvent the wheel. Use CEA’s resources page. Copy templates. Explore what other groups have done with their public resources. Ask other organizers for copies of their CRMs, websites, codes of conduct, and strategy documents you can either copy or learn from.‘
There is so much information there about community building, and the odds are, if you are thinking ‘I need to write a talk to explain EA/think of a good social/figure out how to run an effective 1-1’/anything like this’, someone has thought the same thing and made a document about it. Use that!
This is a fantastic rundown Andy! Really encourage new groups to use all of this advice, and especially want to emphasize a common failure mode Andy mentioned that I have seen a lot:
‘Do not reinvent the wheel. Use CEA’s resources page. Copy templates. Explore what other groups have done with their public resources. Ask other organizers for copies of their CRMs, websites, codes of conduct, and strategy documents you can either copy or learn from.‘
There is so much information there about community building, and the odds are, if you are thinking ‘I need to write a talk to explain EA/think of a good social/figure out how to run an effective 1-1’/anything like this’, someone has thought the same thing and made a document about it. Use that!