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I've started a few meetups and a format that works well is the following: - have one company as the sponsor, providing venue, food and one technical talk - thi
by olegp 7y ago
I've started a few meetups and a format that works well is the following:
- have one company as the sponsor, providing venue, food and one technical talk - this ensures that the organizers don't need to deal with money which is a big admin headache
- have around 3 talks total, but keep them short, to around 20 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A
- start the event 15-30 mins late to allow for people to show up late and giving those that turned up early the chance to talk to each other
- make sure you end quite early, leaving time for people to mingle afterwards
We also built our own Meetup.com alternative called Meetabit (https://meetabit.com https://meetabit.com, see my other comment to this post) and to promote it wrote a few blog posts which go into more detail, which you can find here: https://blog.toughbyte.com/tagged/meetup https://blog.toughbyte.com/tagged/meetup
- reustle 7y agoWhy do you limit Meetabit to specific locations? Give us a free form search area and let me start a group anywhere :D
- olegp 7y agoWe soft launched it in a few cities only and it was easier to implement that way. I've added Tokyo for you now though. If there are any others you'd like me to add, post them in a comment here please.
- msolujic 7y agoPls add Belgrade, Serbia
- olegp 7y agoAdded
- franciscop 7y ago"I've added Tokyo" But for Tokyo, these are the results: > Events > No events in your city > Communities > No communities in your city > Sponsors > No sponsors in your city Or do you mean that now we can create events, communities and sponsors?
- olegp 7y agoThat's right, you can now start adding them.
- franciscop 7y agoBTW, as a non-english native having "sign in" and "sign up" is a bit confusing. It took me a couple of seconds of thinking to know which one to click. I do front-end, and didn't realize of this until now that I was on the receiving end.
- olegp 7y agoGood point, didn't think about this myself either. Will take this into account when we update that part of the flow next.
- sbmthakur 7y agoCould you also add Mumbai?
- olegp 7y agoAdded
- daneyh 7y agopossible to change the name? it's a bit mealymouthed
- olegp 7y agoWhat would you suggest? We pronounce it "meet a bit"