Hi Vahric, In addition to Radhika's advice of having regular meetups, it also helps to ask the audience for their feedback on the session and what they would like to see at future meetups. John Kinsella does a great job by doing this with our CloudStack Bay Area Users Group. He will usually ask the audience after the meetup by giving them the opportunity to raise their hands and give us their feedback. Another way is to post the question on the discussion board of your meetup group.
I also found that sending reminders of an upcoming meetup to your members is helpful. With the busy schedules of attendees, many of them can easily forget :) We started off with an Intro to CloudStack meetup (http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-SF-Bay-Area-Users-Group/events/103725962/), then led into storage and a hands-on hacking session (which was very popular). You'll need at least 3-4 people running around the room answering their questions and giving advice during this session. We hold regular meetups every 45 days or so and if you have one scheduled, feel free to email this list with a link to your upcoming CloudStack meetup so that community members with credentials to the Apache CloudStack social media channels can promote. One other idea is to take pictures of your meetups and post them in the photos section of your meetup group. I think members love seeing the action and it creates an inviting feel to new members. Hope this helps! There's still a lot for us to learn as well but it's quite fun and you will start seeing repeat attendees and getting to know them :) Best regards, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Kelly Hair Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:44 AM To: [email protected]; Karen Vuong Subject: Re: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey Karen - in addition to Radhika¹s excellent advice, do you have anything to share? Also, for the list, what materials can be shared to help the Turkish group get off the ground? On 11/19/13, 12:00 AM, "Radhika Puthiyetath" <[email protected]> wrote: >Awesome ! > >To start with, go ahead and create a user group, similar to >meetup.com/CloudStack-Bangalore-Group/ > >Invite CloudStack enthusiasts for talks. Have regular Meetups. Simple. > >You can also track the CloudStack events at >http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=apache+cloudstack > >-----Original Message----- >From: Vahric Muhtaryan [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:39 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey > >Hello Kelly and Harm , > >We are looking for establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey. >Now myself and my colleague Mehmet Mart, working on Apache Cloud Stack >for how to implement it on our environment. >We are woking on DorukNET www.doruk.net.tr and its the biggest service >provider and first cloud implementer in Turkey with Hyper-v and first >vCloud Powered Certified DC in Turkey. >Now also we want to open to open world. >We have an options like openstack but because of Mehmets have citrix >background and i like the apache project focused on cloudstack When we >work on we start to think about how we can introduce ACS in Turkey, we >would like to establish VMUG similar user group here. >Because of we are working on ISP we have a good relations with Netapp >, Juniper , IBM , F5 and we also want to see all this plugins >functionality with ACS Also start to write something in my blog because >when you search something about cloudstack mostly cloudstack owen >documents appearing and we believe to create more articles on our >blogs. vmknowledge.wordpress.com > >Now we would like to learn can we establish such thing in Turkey ? What >is the requirement and how you can help us to improve it. > >Regards >Vahric Muhtaryan > >
