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

Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.

Transcript

1. BOF: Growing a Community Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow, and Facilitate Lee Calcote Nov. 9th, 2016 http://calcotestudios.com/kubecon-bof
2. Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote @lcalcote blog.gingergeek.com lee@calcotestudios.com
3. @lcalcote Meetups and Local Conferences
4. Show of Hands @lcalcote Who frequents meetups as a participant? Who is looking to organize a community? How many are community organizers already?
5. Blueprint for a Successful Meetup Group
6. @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
7. @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?
8. @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
9. @lcalcote Vetting Speakers Love your tech. No selling. Review of presentation Avoid repeat speakers? Prior attendance?
10. @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)
11. @lcalcote Best Practices (or where you're having trouble)
12. Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote @lcalcote blog.gingergeek.com lee@calcotestudios.com