Rails World 2024 Lightning Talk Irina Nazarova "How to run a Ruby meetup"

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1. Irina Nazarova, Rails World 2024, ⚡ talk and get inspired by it How to run a Ruby meetup
2. feelings
3. Rails World 2024 Toronto In Jan I moved to SF 3
4. Rails World 2024 Toronto I moved to SF in January 4
5. Rails World 2024 Toronto Something was missing 5
6. Rails World 2024 Toronto I felt lonely 6
7. Rails World 2024 Toronto When lonely 7 go to GitHub and ask them to host SF Bay Area Ruby meetup
8. Rails World 2024 Toronto 8 And it went from there… March May June July August September October lu.ma/sfruby 600 subscribers At each event: 80 - 100 people 3 - 5 speakers Open mic CFP
9. SF BAY AREA RUBY MEETUP
10. Rails World 2024 Toronto I feel inspired 10
11. Rails World 2024 Toronto I feel connected 11
12. Rails World 2024 Toronto Should you do it? 12
13. No unless you can make it benefit you
14. Rails World 2024 Toronto is not sustainable 14 Doing it for fun
15. Rails World 2024 Toronto Sacrifice is not sustainable 15
16. Rails World 2024 Toronto 16 MEETUP PODCAST BOOK HOW CAN THIS BENEFIT YOU?
17. Rails World 2024 Toronto My case? 17
18. Rails World 2024 Toronto 18 📍 NY, CA, Portugal, Japan 🔗evl.ms/railsstack Design and build amazing developer products Fix performance and scalability issues Build periphery and SDKs
19. Rails World 2024 Toronto 19 1. Connecting to Rails startups in SF that are our potential customers 2. Product-market fi t (meetup-people fi t) is a unique experience for me How the meetup is helping us
20. Yes! 1.Support new companies building with Rails
21. Yes! 2.Facilitate hiring
22. Yes! 3.Bring new people into Rails
23. How to
24. Rails World 2024 Toronto 24 Connect with local Ruby/Rails companies Andy Croll’s new project!
25. Rails World 2024 Toronto 25
26. Rails World 2024 Toronto 26 they host the meetup they hire Rubyists they bring real problems they can help you with your own goals they often won’t travel to a big Rails/Ruby conference Local companies are important
27. Rails World 2024 Toronto 27 Meetup recipe 1. Secure location and date 2. Create an event page Lu.ma 3. Announce the event Socials, Reddit, podcasts 4. Invite people in DMs on Linkedin 5. Secure speakers. Announce each speaker. 6. Promote till you have 2.5X signups 7. On the day of the event: run it, enjoy it! Don’t be shy!
28. Rails World 2024 Toronto 28 The show-up rate is only 40%, hence we need 2.5X signups
29. Rails World 2024 Toronto 29 SEARCH AND INVITE PEOPLE ON LINKEDIN Search: Rails + your location
30. Rails World 2024 Toronto 30 RUBYCONFERENCES.ORG Ruby meetups per month Add your meetup here!
31. Rails World 2024 Toronto 31 Don’t assume there are gatekeepers
32. Rails developer survey is out
33. Rails World 2024 Toronto 33 railsdeveloper.com/survey
34. Rails World 2024 Toronto 34 We are here!
35. Rails World 2024 Toronto 35 railsdeveloper.com/survey We are here!
36. Rails World 2024 Toronto 36 🎆 railsdeveloper.com/survey We can get here!
37. lu.ma/sfruby 37 Join us on October 10!
38. Thank you! in@evl.ms twitter.com/inazarova Slides will be here: 🔗evilmartians.com/events