[group-organizers] Help regarding the meetup agenda

[Tathagata Dasgupta]

Hi Yasoob,
Great points from Brian and Nicholas! I would also like to point you to Ned
Batchelder's interview
http://podcastinit.com/episode-5-ned-batchelder.html - it's a great
resource about community building.
It is interesting both Brian and Ned (both veteran organizers) highlight
the importance of consistency - so that the meetup attendees know what to
expect. Note how structured Nick's coding dojos events are. When we
organized a Coding dojo for a Chicago Mentorship event - we just imported
his well tested format, and it worked out great!

An interesting experiment could be if you put out schedules to the hour for
upcoming 2 or 3 meetups. Of course you can change, but gives the attendees
confidence that there's a plan to follow.


On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 2:02 AM Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In London we've found the dojo format to be a *lot* of fun, friendly and
> with low organising overhead.
>
> http://ntoll.org/article/how-to-run-an-awesome-code-dojo
>
> N.
>
> On 14/08/15 17:03, Yasoob Khalid wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I am Yasoob. I am from Lahore, Pakistan. I have been involved with Python
> > for a couple of years. I also gave a talk at EuroPython last year. I have
> > been wanting to start a User Group in my own city for quite some time
> now.
> >
> > In Pakistan the meetup culture is not very ripe. I want to know what
> should
> > be the format of the first meetup so that people feel more welcomed.
> >
> > I have got sponsorship from a local company who would be giving us the
> > venue and a speaker (most probably a django guy). I have prepared a flyer
> > which I am planning on dropping at the local universities once they open
> > next month.
> >
> > I have also found 2 co-organizers for the meetup which are from the same
> > company sponsoring our meetup. They are willing to co-organize future
> > meetups as well if this one goes smoothly.
> >
> > Kindly let me know if there is anything else which I should do and the
> > agenda of the event which would be welcoming for the attendees. Moreover,
> > what should I delegate to my co-organizers?
> >
> > If there is anything else you would like to know then kindly let me know.
> >
> > p.s: I am going to tweak the poster slightly to add more info (venue,
> date,
> > talk titles).
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid
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