[tor-bugs] #20305 [Community/Outreach]: organizing new speakers-bureau list

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#20305: organizing new speakers-bureau list
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     Reporter:  arma                |      Owner:  dgoulet
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 In Seattle, I spoke to a bunch of people about a "Tor speakers bureau"
 idea -- basically a central group on the Tor side who keep track of what
 speaking things Tor people are doing, and learn about new speaking things
 (both proactively and by being the funnel where we send all the ones that
 invite us somewhere), and track what opportunities we're missing, and
 generally prioritize to make sure we're doing our conference outreach
 effectively.

 Then I spoke to David, who said a "somebody should" sentence very close to
 a "Roger, you should delegate more" sentence.

 So, I hereby put David in charge of moving this idea forward. :) With a
 supporting cast of Roger, Kate, Shari, and Alison.

 Among the next steps:

 * We probably want some public address for receiving speaker requests; and
 we should list that public address somewhere public.

 * We may or may not want a separate internal discussion list. Maybe not
 yet?

 * We should probably make a simple wiki page to explain what the list is
 for, so people can read about it and get up to speed if they weren't in
 Seattle.

 * We should try to extract the list of *currently known* talks that Tor
 people are doing, so it is in one place.

 * We should figure out good ways to make a public list of these talks, and
 keep it updated regularly. The old way was "on the Tor blog calendar" but
 that is non-ideal.

 * We should accumulate a list of good Tor speakers, and what they're good
 at speaking about. These can come first from inside our community, but I
 think we'll all be happier if we start learning about external people who
 are great at speaking about Tor -- especially if we want to get good
 global coverage to be able to e.g. answer Campus Party invites from
 Brazil.

 * One of our many goals there should be to match up speaking experience
 with how public or high-profile the event is, so we can get more Tor
 people out there talking about Tor, while still getting the *right* people
 in the most important places.

 * Later, we should tell the world that we want to go explain Tor to them,
 and here's the contact address if you want one of us. We should expect to
 get many "I can't pay travel but I'd love to have you", and a smaller
 number of "I can pay travel". We should find the right balance, since
 sometimes the places that can't pay are the places we most need to be
 represented.

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