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Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Edu...

Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016

Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow and Facilitate

Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.

Lee Calcote

November 09, 2016
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  1. BOF: Growing a Community Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow, and

    Facilitate Lee Calcote Nov. 9th, 2016 http://calcotestudios.com/kubecon-bof
  2. Show of Hands @lcalcote Who frequents meetups as a participant?

    Who is looking to organize a community? How many are community organizers already?
  3. @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
  4. @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?
  5. @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
  6. @lcalcote Vetting Speakers Love your tech. No selling. Review of

    presentation Avoid repeat speakers? Prior attendance?
  7. @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)