User Groups: The Gateway to Apache
summary
Explains how a large user group runs reproducible community growth: a 2,500 member network that averages 40–80 attendees per meetup and a consistent 50% show rate, rotating venues to keep employers engaged, recruiting top and local speakers, hosting hack nights (curated JIRAs so novices can land a patch), holding office hours and mentorship, running an Apache Groovy hackathon, and using talks on committership and JSR/JCP to convert attendees into active ASF contributors.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40About Bob
- 2:33Building for the future
- 4:08How did you get here
- 5:18What makes Apache special
- 5:47Apaches mission
- 7:03Growing the community
- 7:29survivorship bias
- 8:50joining a mailing list
- 9:46incubators
- 10:36beer and pizza
- 10:56facetoface interactions
- 11:37average user group attendee
- 13:45user group folks
- 14:07speakers
- 16:05mentorship
- 19:08street credibility
- 20:17role models
- 20:31user groups
- 21:16theyre not all created equal
- 22:12specific or general user groups
- 23:27building a community
- 24:42think big
- 26:28venue
- 28:41growing membership
- 30:55encouraging open source contributions
- 31:09holding hack nights
- 34:19getting into opensource
- 35:13giving a talk
- 36:09podcasts
- 36:38how do you run a user group
- 37:40questions
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