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# kug-leads

[Piotr Krzemiński]

@Alina Dolgikh [JB] I'm thinking about creating a set of tools helpful for KUG leads, like for preparing promo graphics or "call for speakers" announcements/surveys. I'm wondering if there's been any effort from JetBrains in that matter, and if no, if JetBrains is willing to support such efforts. Maybe it would be a good topic for some survey, to probe the demand of other KUG leads for such kind of tools/services? Happy to drive this topic!

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Hey! Great idea. There was something, but not much. I’ll share what we have on Monday. Have a mini vacation starting tomorrow 🌴

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Sure, no pressure - enjoy your vacation :)

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Hi @Piotr Krzemiński!
Sp far we have templates for social media for KUG branding. We have Kotlin Night assets.

We’ve also put together a list of assets, based on a request of one of the KUGs and now waiting for the design team to allocate time for implementation.

Feel free to review and share more ideas!

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Thanks! So my idea is to create a service, like a KUG leader assistant, where I can imagine at least two flows:
• Help with organizing a meetup. The leader would type in meetup date, title, speakers, description of the talks and other stuff, and the system would automatically generate promo graphics for Meetup, thumbnails for YouTube, maybe even create a meeting on Meetup. Imagination is the limit :) this idea addresses the fact that as a leader I do a lot of tedious work with each meeting
• Centralized mechanism for Call For Speakers. A simple alternative is e. g. a Google Forms survey where a person willing to give a talk would fill in the details, and then the KUG leader can take it further - but we can take it further. I imagine having a centralized system so that it's possible for the speaker to specify that they want to talk on a specific KUG's meeting, or maybe the ones around my time zone, or worldwide! Then the KUG leaders could choose the topics on the "market". KUG leads could also ask for speakers on a given topic. This idea addresses my first biggest problem as a KUG leader, that is: finding speakers
@Alina Dolgikh [JB] @Holger Steinhauer [Mod] let me know what you think!

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Both are pretty cool! I especially like the second as many organizers struggle with finding speakers. I’m in 🙂
@Maria Krishtal please take a look too.

[Piotr Krzemiński]

cool, I can start drafting some mockups of the CFS (Call For Speakers) flow how it could work exactly

[Maria Krishtal]

@Piotr Krzemiński would you like to hop on a quick call to discuss the ideas? Somewhere next week?

[Piotr Krzemiński]

@Maria Krishtal sure thing! feel free to propose some time slot. CC @Holger Steinhauer [Mod] who wanted to get involved as well

[Maria Krishtal]

@Holger Steinhauer [Mod] would you like to join the call next week?

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

@Piotr Krzemiński not to high jack or scope creep, but this is interesting for talks, articles etc. E.g. I am one of the maniacs behind Gopher Advent and Java Advent and we are looking for article submissions every year. Very same issue. Would be great to have it as “Call for Participation” or so (just an idea 😉 )

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

@Maria Krishtal Sounds good. Depends a bit on the when

[Maria Krishtal]

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