Event volunteer signup sheet

[thebestmensch]

@open-austin/leadership does it make sense to bring something like this back for folks that want to help? We had a few volunteers at our last meetup.

Here's the old doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B472jCRq0W5ag4TNmR8xVapd7n863luPTuNZOx_YG8Q/edit?usp=sharing

Maybe @mscarey can touch on why it didn't work last time?

[mateoclarke]

This really helped us in the past in my opinion. I'd vote to bring it back if would could get somebody to wrangle volunteers.

[mscarey]

Yeah, I think it was working well until the number of people helping out dipped too low, which probably made it seem unnecessary to coordinate through the form. But I think we have enough people that the form will be helpful again.

[thebestmensch]

Spoke to Vickie at the library meetup. Sounds like this probably fell off in the past due to lack of maintenance. Mentioned a slack bot to post this. Some potential ideas to streamline this:

• Bot to post signup sheet to iced-coffee slack channel
• Differentiate event tasks that need to happen beforehand (orderering pizza) vs tasks that can be picked up adhoc (sign in desk)

Things to consider:

• Who on the leadership team going to coordinate this? Any way to automate?
• Do we need a volunteer lead?

Next steps: Get feedback from volunteers on old sheet, ideas for new process that works for htem.