Running the Docker Meetup in Athens

A presentation I held during the Docker organizers summit, after Dockercon EU 2015 at Barcelona. Contains the dos and don'ts for running a Docker meetup from our experience running the community in Athens (http://meetup.com/Docker-Athens/)

Transcript

1. --CITY=ATHENS DOCKER RUN MEETUP
2. HELLO, I AM ANTONIS, I WORK @SOURCELAIR antonis kalipetis - @akalipetis
3. HOW IT ALL STARTED A BRIEF HISTORY ▸ Docker 0.6 gets out ▸ We’re quite naive and we put it in our platform, in production ▸ We talk with the awesome #boomteam and form the first Meetup in Greece, in Athens
4. FROM THE GROUND UP BUILDING THE COMMUNITY
5. OUR FIRST MEETUPS
6. OUR FIRST MEETUPS ▸ 1st, SourceLair
7. OUR FIRST MEETUPS ▸ 1st, SourceLair ▸ 2nd, SourceLair
8. OUR FIRST MEETUPS ▸ 1st, SourceLair ▸ 2nd, SourceLair ▸ 3rd, woohoo, we got an invited speaker!
9. OUR FIRST MEETUPS ▸ 1st, SourceLair ▸ 2nd, SourceLair ▸ 3rd, woohoo, we got an invited speaker! ▸ 4th, Docker Hack Day
10. OUR FIRST MEETUPS ▸ 1st, SourceLair ▸ 2nd, SourceLair ▸ 3rd, woohoo, we got an invited speaker! ▸ 4th, Docker Hack Day ▸ 5th, SourceLair
11. SOME OF THE SPEAKERS WE’VE HOSTED ▸ Thanasis Parathyras - StackMasters ▸ Spiros Lambrinidis - People per Hour ▸ Kai Davenport - ClusterHQ ▸ Kelsey Hightower (Remote) - Google ▸ Dimitris Moraitis/Chris Loukas - mist.io
12. SOME NUMBERS ▸ 10 Meetups ▸ 428 Dockers ▸ 87 Maximum Dockers in a Meetup ▸ Mostly developers, that also do some Ops…
15. THE SECRETS BEHIND OUR DEMOS
16. THE SECRETS BEHIND OUR DEMOS ▸ Finish them at most half an hour before the Meetup ▸ Drink some alcohol before each demo ▸ Host the Meetup close to your office, in order to be able to run and make it in time
17. IDEAS FOR NEXT STEPS ▸ Go to a bigger space ▸ More hands-on demos-workshops ▸ Docker problem solving sessions ▸ Have synergies with other Meetups around Europe ▸ Make a big Hackathon in the next Docker Hack Day
18. A BIG THANK YOU TO #BOOMTEAM
19. THANKS #DOCKERATH