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 <[email protected]> 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 > > Python Tips <http://www.pythontips.com> > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150814/bee6bf5b/attachment.html > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: intro presentation.pdf > > Type: application/pdf > > Size: 259109 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150814/bee6bf5b/attachment.pdf > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: python poster.png > > Type: image/png > > Size: 106347 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150814/bee6bf5b/attachment.png > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Group-Organizers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 473 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150815/3724e804/attachment.sig > > > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150816/725e184d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
