Founding C++ User Groups

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Practical how-to: a C++ community grows when someone actually signs up venues and recruits organizers not slogans. Meeting C++ becomes a website and monthly newsletter that lists groups automatically from Meetup and reaches thousands; community events scale from a few city meetups in 2011 to 300 attendees and 50 students at a conference. Use existing infrastructure—hackerspaces.org, company rooms, Meetup—and light activities like coding dojos (cyberdojo.com) or cppquiz.org. Expect churn, recruit at least one organizer, avoid premature spending, and get a regular date.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:20Meeting C++
3. 1:39C++ User Groups - 2011
4. 2:41C++ User Groups - 2013
5. 3:43C++ User Groups - 2014
6. 5:31C++ User Group - How to
7. 6:31Motivation
8. 7:15Recipe - Details
9. 8:38Location
10. 11:57Ideas, Topics, Talks
11. 16:06Sponsoring
12. 22:38Questions?
13. 27:34The Hijacker's Guide to the Community
14. 29:09Timing: C++ is Hot!
15. 31:01Key Observation
16. 35:11Silicon Valley Code Camp
17. 41:31ACCU Chapters
18. 54:36Lessons Learned

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