Editing Dialogues/organizing (section)

==Building an Audience==

We do outreach collaboratively between the speakers and organizers. Speakers generally know who they think they should be talking with, and as organizers we maintain a spreadsheet of regular attendees and people we want to reach out to. There are a few email lists we contact as well, e.g. the Berkman Klein email list and the FLOSS Foundations list.

Outreach starts 2-3 weeks before the event and goes maybe too close to the event itself. We're working on being more timely with this. We consider our process semi-open. Anyone can, for example, join our email list where we make announcements. We reach out to a number of people and groups as well and sometimes make social media posts.

We generally have 10-15 people at an event. We believe we could accommodate up to thirty, but might need to reorganize the schedule. (Like maybe put the presentations back-to-back and then have discussion time in two smaller groups that switch at some point.)