Connect and grow your community through meetups
summary
Shows how the Ansible community uses meetup.com subscriptions, a GitHub repo for slides, and simple metrics to grow local groups — Europe goes from six to 12 active meetups in a year — and highlights concrete tactics: sponsoring meetup.com fees, a PR-based talk submission workflow, tracking RSVP vs. attendance (famous example 100 RSVPs 20 showed up), and a “yellow card” no-show spreadsheet used by a Dutch workshop series to cut no-shows.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25About me
- 7:28Meetups
- 8:01Contributors
- 10:19Largest meetups
- 13:03Average RSVP
- 16:14The 5 Ws
- 17:26Why meetups
- 21:09Who can help
- 24:02Content
- 31:12When
- 34:11Cost
- 40:28Diversity Inclusion
- 45:52Other considerations
- 52:52Format of meetups
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