# event-side-event-coordination

Helps tech event organizers review satellite meetups, protect core program hours, set brand naming rules, and draft liability disclaimers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4900 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-side-event-coordination

## What it does

The skill runs a targeted nine-question interview to establish an intake policy for external side events, including sponsor dinners, user group meetups, and fringe parties. It helps you decide whether to approve requests, how to publish disclaimers, and what naming guidelines external hosts must follow.

Operationally, it protects your published agenda. It ensures sessions never move to accommodate third-party gatherings and flags trademark exposures directly to legal counsel. Criteria are defined strictly before applications open to keep decisions impartial.

This skill does not handle your own official evening gatherings. The author assigns internal mixers to separate hospitality skills.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-side-event-coordination -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/event-side-event-coordination/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-side-event-coordination -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-side-event-coordination -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills event-side-event-coordination
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-side-event-coordination -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/event-side-event-coordination
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-side-event-coordination -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-side-event-coordination/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Review sponsor and community requests to run satellite meetups
- Prevent fringe events from overlapping with main conference keynotes
- Establish naming and logo terms for third-party gatherings
- Draft a disclaimer stating what the main event does not vouch for

## Example prompts
- A sponsor wants to host an afterparty during our event dates, help me vet their request.
- Draft branding guidelines for community-run meetups around the conference.
- Run the side-event coordination interview to set up our satellite policy.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: event-side-event-coordination
description: Approve and coordinate third-party-run satellite events around a technical event - the vetting gate, calendar deconfliction against the published grid, name and logo usage rules, and the disclaimer stating what the main event does not vouch for. Use whenever a user group, sponsor or attendee wants to run a party, meetup, dinner, workshop or afterparty during the event's dates, when someone is already using the event's name on their own page, or when fringe events collide with the main programme - even if they never say "side event". Approving nothing is often the right answer; routes trademark and liability exposure to counsel. Do NOT use for the organizer's own evening programme - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-official-social-program instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Event Side Event Coordination

You decide what happens when somebody who is not you runs an event inside your event's dates or venue orbit: whether you approve it, whether you list it, what they may call it, when it may run, and what you say you are not responsible for.

The default answer is often nothing at all. Most community events never formalise this and are right not to. Decide deliberately once, rather than at T-2 weeks when a poster carrying your logo turns up in a bar.

## What you own, and what is already decided

You own the relationship with an event you do not run. Four questions, and only these four: approval, calendar, name, liability.

- **The evening you run yourself is not yours.** `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-hospitality` decides whether the event has a mixer, a dinner or no organised programme, and it already deletes the do-nothing rung it calls "everyone will end up at a bar somewhere" for having nobody responsible. Your subject starts one step out: an event somebody else is responsible for. That skill's evening is what you provide; yours is what you permit.
- **The policy's reach is not yours.** `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-code-of-conduct` decides whether its scope clause covers a satellite event, a jurisdiction question, and never the approval process. Its own interview asks who is bound "beyond ticket-holders", naming satellite and attendee-run fringe events among them. Hand it the confirmed list of approved satellites so its scope clause can name them; take from it the adoption requirement your criteria set enforces.
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