Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Edu...
Search
Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
Technology
0
200
Growing a Community - Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow and Facilitate
Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.
Lee Calcote
November 09, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Lee Calcote
See All by Lee Calcote
Establishing an Open Source Program Office
leecalcote
0
250
Istio: Using nginMesh as the service proxy
leecalcote
0
260
CNCF, State of Serverless & Project Nuclio
leecalcote
0
64
Create Great CNCF User-Base From Lessons Learned From Other Open Source Communities
leecalcote
1
300
Understanding and Extending Prometheus AlertManager
leecalcote
0
340
Load-Balancing in the Cloud using Nginx & Kubernetes
leecalcote
0
100
UniK: Unikernel Compiler and Runtime
leecalcote
0
68
Container World 2017 - Characterizing and Contrasting Container Orchestrators
leecalcote
0
72
From Engines to Orchestrators
leecalcote
0
42
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
組織全員で向き合うAI Readyなデータ利活用
gappy50
1
680
あなたの知らない Linuxカーネル脆弱性の世界
recruitengineers
PRO
3
160
SQLAlchemy の select(User).where(User.id =="123") を理解してみる/sqlalchemy deep dive
3l4l5
3
450
ソースを読む時の思考プロセスの例-MkDocs
sat
PRO
1
220
[re:Inent2025事前勉強会(有志で開催)] re:Inventで見つけた人生をちょっと変えるコツ
sh_fk2
0
140
20251027_マルチエージェントとは
almondo_event
1
440
From Natural Language to K8s Operations: The MCP Architecture and Practice of kubectl-ai
appleboy
0
230
AWS DMS で SQL Server を移行してみた/aws-dms-sql-server-migration
emiki
0
240
re:Inventに行くまでにやっておきたいこと
nagisa53
0
290
Okta Identity Governanceで実現する最小権限の原則 / Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege with Okta Identity Governance
tatsumin39
0
170
Implementing and Evaluating a High-Level Language with WasmGC and the Wasm Component Model: Scala’s Case
tanishiking
0
190
Dify on AWS 環境構築手順
yosse95ai
0
140
Featured
See All Featured
Evolution of real-time – Irina Nazarova, EuRuKo, 2024
irinanazarova
9
1k
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
garrettdimon
PRO
32
1.7k
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
quramy
49
14k
Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the AI Era
addyosmani
7
640
A designer walks into a library…
pauljervisheath
209
24k
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
addyosmani
9
930
Side Projects
sachag
455
43k
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
45
7.7k
Navigating Team Friction
lara
190
15k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
72
19k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
274
41k
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
soudai
PRO
190
55k
Transcript
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]