OSCA Chapter Leads will use this repository for:
- Discussing and planning chapter activities.
- Requesting help, support, or materials from Open Source Community Africa.
- Tracking and talking about the activities you are organizing.
- Checking out the docs for chapter design assets, managing expenses, and sponsorship information.
- Anything else a Chapter Lead needs to be successful.
- 🎖 Open an issue in this repository.
- 🏷 Add the specific labels needed for your request.
- @ Tag the community manager or any other OSCA team member to help with your request.
- 🎊 Host the event!
- 👍 Submit your post event report.
- ✅ Close the issue.
Here are the guidelines around sponsorships, kindly check them out before opening an issue.
Let's say you want to host a workshop on "Introduction to Open Source" for your chapter in Lagos State, Nigeria.
🎖 Open an issue
You will open an issue titled "Introduction to Open Source Workshop | Lagos | 2021/10/13", and describe what you're planning to do as requested in the issue template.
🏷 Add lables
You will then add the labels "Nigeria" (Your location) and "Workshop" (Event Type) to describe where you are and what you are organizing alongside any other related tag(s). See all tags here.
@ Tag anyone you think can help you
You will then tag the community manager or any other OSCA team member to help with your request.
🗣 Publicize the event
Create a banner for your event using the design guidelines and share it with the global and your local OSCA community on Discord and social media. Your community manager will also create an RSVP page for you (once your event is approved), with which you will collect important information from your attendees before the event.
✨ Host the event!
After your event and request is approved, you will then proceed to host the workshop.
👍 Submit your event report
After the event is completed, return to the created issue and submit a post event report. Your report should include photos, relevant social media posts, reports and any other details. To create the post event report, use the Post Event Template, submit the report as a comment under the issue, and submit any expenses by following the Expense submission guideline.
✅ Close the issue
You have done well, mission complete!