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

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]

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BOF: Growing a Community Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow, and

Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote

@lcalcote Meetups and Local Conferences

Show of Hands @lcalcote Who frequents meetups as a participant?

Blueprint for a Successful Meetup Group

@lcalcote Formats Talk & Demo Hands-on Tutorial Multiple speakers Multi-part

@lcalcote Co-organizing Sharing the load and play to strengths Expanded

@lcalcote Finding Speakers How to ﬁnd? How to incentivize? Recording

@lcalcote Vetting Speakers Love your tech. No selling. Review of

@lcalcote Sponsors How to ﬁnd them Food puts butts in

@lcalcote Best Practices (or where you're having trouble)

Lee Calcote clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications and their management linkedin.com/in/leecalcote