Community BOF
summary
Discussion of how local tech communities grow and sustain themselves with concrete examples: a meetup network running 15 events per year, a recent 160-person conference with 10 speakers, and an organizer group running a conference business with low‑million dollar turnover. Key findings: communities form around a core five volunteers rather than top‑down mandates; management helps best by providing time, space, pizza, or conference tickets; forced programs fail; measure success by quality of speakers and community growth, not attendance promises.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:32Organizing the meetup
- 9:09Personal community experience
- 13:22Motivating members
- 22:07Corporate community building
- 35:57Community competition
- 45:24Summary
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