If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it - Ring preparation session

Lead: MP Fernández
Audience: Ring Leaders and interested parties

1. What?
   This is a session to help ring makers and all interested parties flesh out the ring concept, discussion points, outcomes, and more.

2. How?
   Tomislav prepared templates for your ring. If you need help to structure your ring, this is the place to ask all questions. We can also help out with the ideas for desirable outcomes. Check here to find your ring doc. If you don't have a doc, just copy from one of these. There is Ring Maker Toolkit doc where you can find some inspiration.

3. What do we expect from the rings?
   Nothing or everything. Rings are supposed to be self-organized and we should work consistently and focused because we believe in this.
   That said, we encourage you to create your own outcomes and outputs. An effective ring should be able to come up with material and conclusions for publication.
   Ideally, you would fill out Session outline for your ring as well as define and structure Output templates which will be filled during ring session.

4. Some questions to guide the thought process:

• What does this ring mean to you?
• Who is the desired audience that will benefit from the actions of this ring?
• What can we do to continue these actions after the council?
• Desired outputs/outcomes

Ring Jam session outline

A. General information

Session title	Ring jam
Facilitator	Ring leaders facilitate their respective ring sessions
Scribe	vacant
Time and date	16:00 - 17:30, 28.10.2018.
Material requirements	Bring your own pens and paper
Space requirements	Each ring in their own room
Number of participants	no req

B. Expected outcomes

1. Defined Ring session outcomes
2. Defined Ring session outputs
3. Defined Ring session structure

C. Expected outputs

1. Ring session outline
   Each Ring will fill in their Ring session outline document.
2. Ring session outputs
   Each Ring will define and create the template documents for outputs they plan to produce during the Ring session on the following day.
3. MVP - next thing that we could do

D. Timeline

Duration	Segment	Description
20min	Introduction	The facilitator will briefly introduce the outline of the session with emphasis on expected outomes and outputs.
20min	Purpose	What does this ring mean to you? Who is the desired audience that will benefit from the actions of this ring?
20min	Outcomes	What we want to achieve with this ring? What we want to achieve with this session?
20min	Outputs	How do we document what we create during the session?