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Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
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Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow and Facilitate
Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.
Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
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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]