Celebrating Event Leaders

SQLSaturday is about the attendees, finding ways to encourage volunteer participation, and definitely about building the pool of speakers. But it’s easy to forget…or at least not recognize sufficiently…the contribution of the event leaders who make it all happen. After attending and coaching a lot of these events, the ones that are most successful are the ones with a leader that is passionate and willing to sweat the details, but even the smallest events just would not happen without that one key person.

So…what to do to recognize that? Send them a plaque?

I think the first thing is to recognize their contributions in a more permanent way on the web site, building a page that lists the event leaders along with their bio and some links back to them, and then probably we should build it in to the event site as well.

There’s probably merit to the plaque idea as well, and we’ll have to look at a way to fund that – a minor challenge since we have no operating budget, but we’ll figure something out!