Update requirements and wording of the locals page

[martinbonnin]

• Move video recording to a soft requirement: photos are ok if video is not possible
• Explain why there is a requirement for a TSC representative to be an organizer

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[vliegveld5]

For Explain why there is a requirement for a TSC representative to be an organizer
Can we also leverage GraphQL Ambassadors?

Instead of only TSC representative, to include GraphQL Ambassadors as representative as part of the GraphQL local organisation?

[martinbonnin]

Instead of only TSC representative, to include GraphQL Ambassadors as representative as part of the GraphQL local organisation?

TSC is more stable IMO (there's a 2 years commitment) and shouldn't go "missing in action". I would stick with that unless we have a hard time recruiting them.

[martinbonnin]

That being said, I'm not sure what the current status. Looks like most of the locals don't have a TSC representative in their org anyways so if adding Ambassadord makes it so that we actually do what we say we should do, then I'm all for it.3

[martinbonnin]

Ok, I'm convinced ^^, I've added Ambassadors (ping @jemgillam )

[benjie]

That being said, I'm not sure what the current status. Looks like most of the locals don't have a TSC representative in their org

Every official GraphQL Local has a TSC representative in their org, it's one of the requirements.

• London: me
• Hyderabad: me
• Ahmedabad (defunct): me
• Austin: me
• Paris: Martin
• Amsterdam: me
• Oslo: me
• Białystok: me

We're softening the requirements (e.g. for recordings) to encourage more meetups to become official GraphQL Locals. We expect that many of the people who run Locals will become Ambassadors, but for the continuity of the group it's best if an official TSC member has admin access so they can add new organizers in the case of someone going non-contact. Partly it's to address bus-factor.