CNMCyber event

A WorldOpp event (hereinafter, the Event) is any event designed and/or organized by one or more WorldOpp event hosts that is absolutely free to its participants to attend.

Range of purposes

Hiring events

Main wikipage: WorldOpp hiring event

WorldOpp hiring events are those Events that are organized to recruit learners for Careerprise Orientation and inform those learners about services offered by Friends Of CNM. The learners could further become WorldOpp fellows, Careerprise vendors, and/or Careerprise partners.

Conferences

Main wikipage: Careerprise conference

Roundtables

Main wikipage: WorldOpp roundtable

Standups

Main wikipage: CNM standup

Seminars

Main wikipage: WorldOpp seminar

Operations

Pre-event operations

The primary platform to conduct pre-event operations is the designated Channel. Prior to the Event:

1. If special participants are going to be invited to the Event, they need to be identified, contacted, and confirmed;
2. The physical location shall have been booked and/or online room has been created;
3. All of the Time details and Price details shall be identified and communicated;
4. Recording tool shall have been identified and prepared;

The Host is also responsible for cancelling of the Event if no participant RSVPs.

Event operations

The primary platform to conduct event operations is the booked location for onsite Events and Jitsi for online Events. During the Event, the Host shall:

1. "Meet" and greet the participants;
2. Facilitate the Event;
3. Make sure that participants audio, video messages, and chat messages are identified and responded;
4. Make sure that the Event is recorded.

Post-event operations

The primary platform to conduct post-event operations is CNM Wiki. After the Event,

1. The recording of the Event shall be posted at YouTube;
2. The wikipage shall be composed to include all available data of and about the Event including its minutes and link to its audio- and videorecords, as well as organizing lessons learned;
3. A follow-up message shall be sent to those Event's participants who RSVPed for the Event.

Price details

Costs to the participants

Any of the Events shall be offered at absolutely no cost to its participants.

Reimbursement to special guests

Contingent upon mutual agreements and funding, special guests can be reimbursed for their participation. The special guests shall be invited personally and their participation shall be negotiated in advance.

Locations

The Events are usually organized simultaneously onsite to accommodate those who needs face-to-face interactions and online to accommodate those attendees who choose to participate remotely. Any onsite Event should be accompanied by an online Event, but not every online Event should be a Event onsite.

Onsite

The onsite events can be organized only if the Host can physically attend the Event or Friends Of CNM DevOps Administrator personally is the Host. The Events shall usually be scheduled to occur in either:

1. The cafeteria of McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia;
2. Any other public space such as libraries, restaurants, parks, etc.

By default, the announcements should be published at the designated Channel. They can also be published at the Career Network Ministry meetup group. The cut-off RSVP shall be set at about 24 hours prior to the event and, if no member RSVPed, the onsite location of the Event shall be cancelled, so the Event shall be online only.

Online

• The Events shall be broadcasted via Jitsi, which is selected as the webconferencing software for the Events. The announcements shall usually be published at http://worldopp.org when such an opportunity is technically available. Until it is, the designated Channel can be temporarily used.
• If no new attendee RSVPed, the first part of the Event shall be cancelled. If no one, but the Host attends, the Event shall be cancelled.
• The attendees may or may not choose to use their video; however, the Host shall be visible.

Organizing details

Event host

Main wikipage: WorldOpp event host

Requirements for the Host are published at the WorldOpp event host wikipage.

Communication channels

With regard to the announcement and other communication Channels,

1. For Open-to-the-Public Events,
   • When it is launched, http://worldopp.org shall become the official communication channel;
   • The Tech Events for Managers and Entrepreneurs meetup group is used for the onsite Events;
   • The WorldOpp fb-page is used for the online Events only.
2. For Invitation-only Events, communication Channels, usually email or text messages or phone conversations, are selected based on a choice of the participants.

CNM Wiki (hereinafter, the Wiki) serves as the main platform for contents of the Events including their minutes and recordings.

Calendar

When it is launched, worldopp.org will serve as the official calendar for the Events. The calendars of the Channels can be used temporarily as the calendars.

RSVP options

Open-to-the-Public Events

Unless they are the Host or special guests, participants of those Events that are open to the public shall be invited through the designated Channel, but may choose to participate or not to participate.

Any individual including employment candidates (primarily residing in Kenya and only English speakers for now), aspiring volunteers (primarily residing in the Washington DC metro area), contractors, and partners of the Buyer who is interested in becoming a staffer one day is usually welcome to participate.

The Buyer shall not collect private information such as actual name, social network, Skype and/or email credentials from the participants. During the Events, they may or may not identify or misidentify themselves; their emails and/or other contacts shall not be available for the Host or other participants.

Invitation-only Events

The Host may choose to organize the Event that would be closed to the general public and all of its participants would be personally invited.

Materials

Notifications

The Group publishes all the announcement and notifications for onsite Events and the FB Page does so for online Events in order at serves as a hub and/or notice board to reach out to potential and actual participants.

Videos and audios

The Wiki publishes all the content of the Event including its specific agenda, minutes and all available recordings. The recordings can also be published at YouTube in order to be available to the general public.

Texts and graphics

The Wiki publishes all the content of the Event including its specific agenda, minutes and all available recordings and, if the recordings are published at YouTube in order to be available to the general public, the links.