Choosing the Right Events for Your Community

Given at OSCON 2014

Transcript

3. one day conferences parties user groups enormous conference contributor events
5. LET’S HOLD AN EVENT FOR OUR COMMUNITY
10. CONTRIBUTORS AUTHORS USERS CODERS BEGINNERS LEADERS DESIGNERS HIGH SCHOOLERS TESTERS EMPLOYEES CUSTOMERS
12. purpose
13. teach people something new gather marketing leads celebrate encourage beginners to keep learning meet users face-to-face share your discoveries learn from others collaborate increase transparency gather feedback fix something share knowledge build something
16. Not a User User Super User Contributor Beginner Intermediate Advanced Using Enterprise Using Open Source Must know Perl Must know Ruby Must know Clojure Must know Elvish (Tengwar only)
17. Full Day Event Half Day Event One Hour Event Evening Event Co-located w/ another event Independent Day after other event 50 people 100 people 200 people 500 people Presentations Open Hacking Demos Discussion
19. some specific types of events
20. collaborate compete
21. contributor events
22. one day conferences parties user groups enormous conference contributor events
24. ONLINE EVENTS
25. small one-day conferences
27. setting expectations
28. YOU CAN SET BOUNDARIES YOU CAN SET EXPECTATIONS
29. Text . . YOU ARE A WARRIOR SLAYING IMPOSTOR SYNDROME YOU ARE A WARRIOR SLAYING IMPOSTOR SYNDROME YOU ARE A WARRIOR SLAYING IMPOSTOR SYNDROME
30. CODE OF CONDUCT
31. Alcohol and Inclusivity
32. Solutions Consider a party that’s not in a bar Drink list with equal alcoholic + non alcoholic Advertise that event will have delicious alcohol + delicious non alcohol Simply having ‘Coke’ doesn’t cut it! Water clearly visible Treat caffeine similarly - have other options
33. EVENT PAGE WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE WHEN TO SHOW UP FULL SCHEDULE HOW TO PREPARE
34. NAME BADGES
35. Re-energizing stagnant events
36. one day conferences parties user groups enormous conference contributor events
37. Finding speakers
38. Finding speakers
39. Finding speakers
45. Repeat Improve Scale
47. planning on-site problem solving
48. Document everything Document Everything
49. Plan with the ability to hand it off Create permanent resources Record on-site details
50. FEEDBACK
51. one day conferences parties user groups enormous conference contributor events
52. Set expectations - and make them clear to attendees Build your event with clear purpose that you can improve on Document everything so you can repeat, improve, and scale
53. kara@puppetlabs.com @feynudibranch
54. heyyy!! Many wonderful people made this talk possible! A few specific ones - thank you! Puppet Labs - for sending me here Dawn Foster - for encouraging me to speak Briana de Jong - for all you’ve taught me about events Carina Zone - for support at events as I’ve started speaking Connie Berardi - for helpful insights on events wch I incorporated Mike Stahnke - for showing me that handwritten slides are totally ok People at the Community Leadership Summit - for helpful insights I used Meg Hartley, Sherri Dover, John Smith, and Aria Joughin - For invaluable feedback on an early version of this talk <3