Ideas and volunteers for growing this community

[anjackson]

Alongside the efforts to grow the group of users contributing to COPTR (see #66), I wanted to open a discussion about ideas for other ways to go about this. I'm going to try running regular online "Collaboration Cafes", but there is much more we could do, in principle.

During the Registries of Good Practice project, a number of ideas came up, but I didn't have the capacity to act on them:

• Work with the NDSA community to run events.
• Reach out through the EMBARK network
• Work with lecturers to work out how to meaningfully integrate e.g. COPTR into their courses, documenting things to do that make sense (given students are not practitioners).
• Run hackathons in person, e.g. at conferences.
• Consider ways to integrate these resources with iPRES, e.g. linking COPTR to the Bake Off, somehow.

Of course, the crucial issue is funding. These things wont happen unless people volunteer to take them on, but they shouldn't happen without the individuals involved being compensated. Ideas welcome there too!