Research
You should start the City Community only if you can answer the following questions with Yes.
Is no other City Community near you, so that a city community is really needed? You can see the existing City Communities soon on a page we made. :D
Is a university in this city? Otherwhise it will not be possible to start the community.
Do you know which subject you want to support? I would propose that you take a subject you learned or you had contact with during your time at Serlo. Later it will be possible to take some more subjects
Do you have the time and the capacity to do this? It needs time and effort.
Mission Statement
Your mission statement should provide answers to these three questions:
A. What is the main goal of your community/ project
To know what the mission statement should entail you should know, why City Communities are that important. I wrote a little article about that. It would be really gentle if you read the two paragraphs
The main goal should entail:
What you want to do (city community)
Where you want to do this
With which subject you begin
and why this community is important
A possible answer could be:
"Buildup of a new Serlo City Community in Cologne, to support math and other Subject Communities and provide a shelter and home for all serlo members in Cologne and thus help to provide free education for all."
B. Which skills are required?
Your city community need people, which have
Expertise (to add subject content)
knowledge in the relevant subject
good educational skills
Communication and marketing skills (to communicate your city community properly)
Organizational skills (to organize all events and meetings and so on)
And various other skills that you think could be useful.
C. How to measure success?
You should use the following parameters to measure your success:
How many people in your area have heard from Serlo?
How many people are in the facebook group?
How many participants do you have at your events? Do they come regularly?
How many people work in the week at the Serlo Place?
Is their feedback positive? (Do you want to use a satisfaction barometer?)
How much does your city community create?
How many local supporters does your city community have?
You should ask the questions regularly, maybe each month, and record them. This will help you
to measure your effectiveness. How effective is your marketing. How effective is your acquisition and so on.
to identify need for improvement.
If you think there are more parameters to measure success feel free to use them and send your ideas to us!
