Presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2016.

1. BOF: Growing a Community
Leveraging Meetups to Educate, Grow, and Facilitate
Lee Calcote
Nov. 9th, 2016
http://calcotestudios.com/kubecon-bof

2. Lee Calcote
clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications
and their management
linkedin.com/in/leecalcote
@lcalcote
blog.gingergeek.com
lee@calcotestudios.com

3. @lcalcote
Meetups and Local
Conferences

4. Show of Hands
@lcalcote
Who frequents meetups as a participant?
Who is looking to organize a community?
How many are community organizers already?

5. Blueprint for a
Successful Meetup
Group

6. @lcalcote
Formats
Talk & Demo
Hands-on Tutorial
Multiple speakers
Multi-part series
Panel
Date/Time
Length of meetup
sweet spot?
Weekday vs weekend
Does consistency grow
community? trust?
Venue
Freedom from benefactor?
Location / traffic / ease of access

7. @lcalcote
Co-organizing
Sharing the load and play to strengths
Expanded network / broader reach
Joint Meetups
Partnering with other communities
Marketing
Separate site?
Twitter account or hashtag?

8. @lcalcote
Finding Speakers
How to find?
How to incentivize?
Recording and posting talks
https://cloud-native.slack.com
https://community.docker.com
CNCF Ambassadors
Docker Captains

9. @lcalcote
Vetting Speakers
Love your tech.
No selling.
Review of presentation
Avoid repeat speakers?
Prior attendance?

10. @lcalcote
Sponsors
How to find them
Food puts butts in seats
Other types of Events?
Meetups vs other types of communities
(e.g. company-specific User Groups)

11. @lcalcote
Best Practices
(or where you're having trouble)

12. Lee Calcote
clouds, containers, infrastructure, applications
and their management
linkedin.com/in/leecalcote
@lcalcote
blog.gingergeek.com
lee@calcotestudios.com