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2024-03-25-next-cr-workshop-help-needed: Blog post to prepare for next workshop

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+title = 'Help us do the next CodeRefinery workshop (2024 H2)'
+slug = "2024/03/25/next-cr-workshop-help-needed"
+description = "Our workshop in 2024 March went well.  But we need help if we want to do this again."
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+[extra]
+authors = "Richard Darst"
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+As usual, our workshop in 2024 March has worked very well, and our
+feedback is as positive as ever.  The technical setup worked smoothly,
+and [we are working to share our livestreaming technique with
+others](@/blog/2024-03-17-streaming-training-workshop.md).  But
+there's another thing we need: the mere fact we have hundreds of
+registrations, multiple partners, and more than 10 instructors means
+**we need more help to keep these going**.
+
+**We won't schedule another very large CodeRefinery workshop until we can be sure
+we have enough people to distribute the load widely enough to make it
+worth it.  If we don't get that, we'll scale down to what is
+manageable.  Your help is essential.  We give an initial deadline of
+the end of April to figure out our status and do rough timetabling.**
+
+The good thing is that instructors and helpers are not what is in
+short supply, but something more about bigger picture stuff.  We've
+developed good processes and pretty well know what works, but as we
+move to the sustainability phase, we can't do everything ourselves.
+For example, we would be happy to have:
+
+* **Instructor coordinator**, who can keep track of all of our
+  instructors and make sure the necessary onboarding and all is done.
+
+* **Registration coordinator**, who can help manage all of the
+  registrations and communication.
+
+* **Partner coordinator** who can help with outreach to partners
+  (other universities for example) who advertise our workshop and
+  organize local sessions.
+
+None of these are exactly hard, and we can help you learn what is
+needed (but also there is a lot that can be improved for the future -
+new visions are welcome).
+
+Our vision is that our commonly shareable online, live-streamed course
+can be used by as many organizations and learners as possible.  We
+have the base and now we need the communication and outreach to make
+that possible.  (If you can't help directly, but want to be part of
+this vision, also let us know)  Whoever joins would basically become
+part of CodeRefinery for the purposes of organization - your voice
+would matter as much as anyone else.
+
+TODO who to contact.
+
+See also
+* (manuals links?  website links?)