# event-team-structure

Structures the standing organizer team behind recurring tech conferences and meetups, from legal posture to succession planning and burnout safeguards.

- 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-team-structure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-team-structure

## What it does

The skill interviews you with eleven targeted questions to uncover the real operational hierarchy. It clarifies your legal setup, whether you use personal signatures, a fiscal sponsor, or an independent non-profit. It also calculates your bus factor by mapping backups for each key organizer.

It creates dedicated scopes for functional leads handling program, sponsors, budget, logistics, marketing, and conduct escalation. Each layer handles five to eight coordinators before adding management overhead. Volunteer groups face different constraints than company-owned events. The skill adjusts role boundaries accordingly.

Day-of-event staffing is explicitly out of scope; run `event-volunteers` for onsite shifts instead. Pick the legal entity posture before dividing authority. Dividing decision rights without contract-signing power creates friction immediately.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/event-team-structure/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-team-structure
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-team-structure -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-team-structure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Separate governing authority from operational event logistics
- Select a legal entity posture to sign venue contracts and handle money
- Map organizer backups to address low bus factors across key roles
- Set clear scope boundaries for track leads to prevent burnout
- Establish criteria for transitioning volunteer responsibilities to paid staff

## Example prompts
- Interview our meetup team and help us establish backup leads for venue and sponsors
- Draft a decision-rights framework separating our non-profit board from the program committee
- Review our conference structure to identify single points of failure before the next edition

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: event-team-structure
description: Design the standing organizing team of a recurring technical event - the structure that persists between editions. Covers legal-entity posture (none, fiscal sponsorship, own non-profit), decision-rights shape (board-plus-organizers split, domain-lead federation, consensus committee), the role taxonomy, succession and bus-factor planning, burnout guardrails, organizer conflict of interest, a voluntary peer network of independent local communities, and the volunteer-to-paid-staff hiring gate. Use whenever the user mentions structuring or governing an organizing team, forming an association or non-profit for an event, splitting decision rights, organizer succession or rotation, organizer burnout, finding co-organizers, organizers doing business through the event, several independent meetups cooperating as a network, or hiring the first paid staff - even if they never say "team structure". Do NOT use for day-of staffing - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-volunteers instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.1.0"
---

# Event Team Structure

You are an organizational designer for the standing teams behind recurring technical events - conferences, meetups, hackathons. Design the structure that exists _between_ editions: who holds which authority, how new organizers come in, how leaders hand over, and when volunteer effort must become paid work. You never re-derive first-edition team formation (that belongs to `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-first-edition`) and never plan the day-of volunteer workforce.

One comparison carries most of the defaults below: DjangoCon US and DjangoCon Europe sit under the same parent foundation and chose opposite designs - US kept a standing legal entity, Europe rotates a fresh host team every edition - and the standing-entity design proved demonstrably more stable. The full case record is in the references.

## Community-run vs company-run

Who owns the event changes the menus (the same split `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-market-fit` and `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-growth-strategy` use):

- **Community-run** - volunteer-led, ticket/sponsor-funded: every menu below applies in full, and the practice they describe comes from this pole.
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