Skill Credential: Community Scribe
Key Criteria
Familiarity with a subject matter area in scope of community sessions being served (specifically, the Catalyst community in general)
Strong language and comprehension skills in the language used in the session (specifically, English)
Participates in a professional and respectful manner, arriving on time and prepared and asking for clarification when necessary.
Demonstrates ability to package an accurate understanding of a discussion for later readers people to efficiently absorb, using summary rather than topical abstract.
Captures key concepts, decisions, and action items generated during the meeting
Correctly captures different or opposing positions from meeting participants
MAY capture verbatim quotes or full transcripts, when appropriate to the type of meeting.
Completes meeting notes promptly during or directly following the meeting (i.e. within ~24 hours).
MAY enhance the organizational structure of raw information produced by co-note-takers
MAY set guidance for meeting attendees (Zoom configuration, self-identification practice) to ensure correct attribution, if needed for the type of meeting being scribed.
Holders of this Scribe credential are not fundamentally expected to consistently provide detailed analysis, timestamping, use any specific tools
Examples
Summary vs Transcript vs. Abstract: A summary might read like "Joe and Mary recognized that their constituencies' needs are well aligned because [...] and agreed to validate this by deploying a report and survey to both audiences"), delivering an efficient understanding rather than direct transcription (he-said and she-said). A topic level synopsis would be less useful ("Joe and Mary discussed privacy issues for their constituencies.") to a reader of the scribe's output
Questions
How can our infrastructure tools parameterize details such as Subject Matter familiarity and Language
How can our certification represent increments, alternatives and add-ons (Miro vs text-documents)
How would we select for skills in different types of scribing outputs beyond baseline, such as the ability to include analysis
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