5Find the initiation team
You should acquire at least two people to help you building up the community. Obviously, it is good if you find people that are experts in some subjects and want to be editors.
But really important is in the beginning that you find people who have skills useful to organize and build up a city community.
This people should be
good at public relations and can build up a good presence in social media
good at organizing events
good contacts to find editors
good at other leadership skills
You do not need people that combine everything. You do not need one student for each skill, but you should have all the skills in your team.
Find the contributors
At first you have to find the people or let them find you. The latter is easier.
You should make a notice for the billboard and for the monitors in your university or school.
You should use flyers.
You could make a facebook post in the university group or in the facebook group of the university course, which would best suit the main goal of your community.
Don't forget to give them an opportunity to contact you. You could give them your phone number or your email address.
The first meeting
When they call or write you you should propose them to meet in a café. There you should try to get to know them and talk with them about Serlo.
Important agendums for the first meeting:
1. get to know each other
Small talk
Did you both come here on a good way, with a good feeling?
Where do they come from at the moment? (From a lecture e.g.)
Was the lecture good?
You should make a little introduction of who you are and ask them the same
Who are you?
What are you studying?
What are your hobbies?
What do you do at Serlo, what is your mission at the moment
2. Ask where and how they found Serlo, what they already know, like and wether they want to hear more about Serlo
3. Ask them what their strengths are and how they want to contribute
Some hints
When they want to know more about Serlo you should answer the following questions:
What is Serlo?
What do we want to achieve with Serlo? (Mission)
Where do we stand with Serlo? Why is Serlo so cool?
How did Serlo start? (the monastery story)
Try to detect if they really want to contribute or if they are sceptical.
It is not a job interview!!!!
The E-Mail after the first meeting
After you met them, you should write them an E-Mail and thank them for the talk. If you already made an appointment you should write date and time of the new meeting. If the person was more skeptical you should write, that you look forward to receive feedback, wether he want to join or not.
The second meeting
In the second meeting you should bring all the people together who are willing to contribute and helpful. In short you should collect all the good people. This meeting should be in a cozy enviroment too.
The Agenda of the second meeting should be:
1. Small talk
Did everybody come here on a good way, with a good feeling?
Where do they come from at the moment? (From a lecture e.g.)
Was it (the lecture) good?
2. Make an Agenda
Tell them which big points are standing on your agenda (all the next points are the agenda
Ask them, what they additionally want to ask, which questions they have
3. Introducing
You should make a little introduction who you are and ask them the same.
Who are you?
What are you studying?
What are your hobbies?
How did you come to Serlo? How did you find Serlo.
4. How should the future work look like?
It is really important, that you all get a detailed picture of your future cooperation. You should use the growth course to decide upon the different tasks and activities.
What is the first goal you want to work on? (A Serlo weekend?, 20 Students, …)
Maybe work on a tentative schedule for your meetings. Do you want to meet regularly?
When will you give them an introduction to the editor?
Make a tentative project plan
Maybe you should allocate people together for some of the first tasks
Maybe you find some other goals or assignments with the subject communities - City Communities exist to support them
5. Set up communication channels
You will find infos on make structures
give them a Serlo account
show them how to use the editor
add them to a facebook group Serlo {name of your city}
You found a team and builded up some structures with them? Good, then let's move on :)
