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Backstage/Moderator

Responsibilities

  • Monitor the chat during the meetup to:
    • Keep the chat lively.
    • Ensure that participants are following the rules.
    • Continue to make visible links such as the attendence form and slido.
  • Monitor the questions in Slido
    • Remove questions that are inappropriate or incomplete.
    • Generate polls if necessary.
  • Lead the Q&A Discussion at the end of the speaker's talk.

Pre-Event

  • Ensure that you have access to the Slido for the event.

Day of Event

  • Join the meetup stage
  • Monitor the chat for appropriateness.
  • Add the Slido link at regular intervals (about 10 mins apart) throughout the talk.
  • Moderate questions submitted via Slido and remove questions that are incomplete or violate community guidelines.
  • At the end of the speaker's presentation, join on stage to ask questions from the Slido.

Post Event

  • Post any unanswered questions to the speaker or in the Discord general channel for answer.

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