Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Edu...
Search
Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
Technology
0
200
Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow and Facilitate
Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.
Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Lee Calcote
See All by Lee Calcote
Establishing an Open Source Program Office
leecalcote
0
250
Istio: Using nginMesh as the service proxy
leecalcote
0
260
CNCF, State of Serverless & Project Nuclio
leecalcote
0
64
Create Great CNCF User-Base From Lessons Learned From Other Open Source Communities
leecalcote
1
300
Understanding and Extending Prometheus AlertManager
leecalcote
0
340
Load-Balancing in the Cloud using Nginx & Kubernetes
leecalcote
0
100
UniK: Unikernel Compiler and Runtime
leecalcote
0
68
Container World 2017 - Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
leecalcote
0
72
From Engines to Orchestrators
leecalcote
0
42
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
Implementing and Evaluating a High-Level Language with WasmGC and the Wasm Component Model: Scala’s Case
tanishiking
0
190
IBC 2025 動画技術関連レポート / IBC 2025 Report
cyberagentdevelopers
PRO
2
180
CNCFの視点で捉えるPlatform Engineering - 最新動向と展望 / Platform Engineering from the CNCF Perspective
hhiroshell
0
140
ヘンリー会社紹介資料(エンジニア向け) / company deck for engineer
henryofficial
0
390
20251027_マルチエージェントとは
almondo_event
1
440
Azure Well-Architected Framework入門
tomokusaba
1
130
混合雲環境整合異質工作流程工具運行關鍵業務 Job 的經驗分享
yaosiang
0
190
SCONE - 動画配信の帯域を最適化する新プロトコル
kazuho
1
380
SRE × マネジメントレイヤーが挑戦した組織・会社のオブザーバビリティ改革 ― ビジネス価値と信頼性を両立するリアルな挑戦
coconala_engineer
0
260
serverless team topology
_kensh
3
230
AWS DMS で SQL Server を移行してみた/aws-dms-sql-server-migration
emiki
0
240
可観測性は開発環境から、開発環境にもオブザーバビリティ導入のススメ
layerx
PRO
2
660
Featured
See All Featured
How GitHub (no longer) Works
holman
315
140k
Build The Right Thing And Hit Your Dates
maggiecrowley
38
2.9k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
3.1k
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
marcduiker
34
2.3k
A Tale of Four Properties
chriscoyier
161
23k
Java REST API Framework Comparison - PWX 2021
mraible
34
8.9k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
280
24k
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
32
1.2k
GitHub's CSS Performance
jonrohan
1032
470k
Why Our Code Smells
bkeepers
PRO
340
57k
Why You Should Never Use an ORM
jnunemaker
PRO
59
9.6k
Music & Morning Musume
bryan
46
6.9k
Transcript
BOF: Growing a Community Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow, and
Facilitate Lee Calcote Nov. 9th, 2016 http://calcotestudios.com/kubecon-bof
Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote
@lcalcote blog.gingergeek.com
[email protected]
@lcalcote Meetups and Local Conferences
Show of Hands @lcalcote Who frequents meetups as a participant?
Who is looking to organize a community? How many are community organizers already?
Blueprint for a Successful Meetup Group
@lcalcote Formats Talk & Demo Hands-on Tutorial Multiple speakers Multi-part
series Panel Date/Time Length of meetup sweet spot? Weekday vs weekend Does consistency grow community? trust? Venue Freedom from benefactor? Location / traffic / ease of access
@lcalcote Co-organizing Sharing the load and play to strengths Expanded
network / broader reach Joint Meetups Partnering with other communities Marketing Separate site? Twitter account or hashtag?
@lcalcote Finding Speakers How to find? How to incentivize? Recording
and posting talks https://cloud-native.slack.com https://community.docker.com CNCF Ambassadors Docker Captains
@lcalcote Vetting Speakers Love your tech. No selling. Review of
presentation Avoid repeat speakers? Prior attendance?
@lcalcote Sponsors How to find them Food puts butts in
seats Other types of Events? Meetups vs other types of communities (e.g. company-specific User Groups)
@lcalcote Best Practices (or where you're having trouble)
Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote
@lcalcote blog.gingergeek.com
[email protected]