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I've been running my local ruby meetup for about 6 years now. It was pretty stressful to begin with, trying to get people to give presentations, or thinking of
by patrickdavey 3y ago
I've been running my local ruby meetup for about 6 years now. It was pretty stressful to begin with, trying to get people to give presentations, or thinking of one myself.
Then maybe 4 years ago I had the idea of threatening to shut the meetup down unless we managed to get 11 people to sign up to do a presentation once a year. This basically meant we had an entire year's worth of talks sorted by January.
We've been doing this every year now for the last 4 years, and it's working really well. It's not _my_ ruby meetup, it's the community meetup, I'm just helping facilitate it :)
- stavros 3y agoShit, I've had the problem of finding presentations for years, I never thought about blackmail! I'll try that now, thanks!
- thelittlenag 3y agoHuh. Guess I know what I’m doing at my next meetup.
- patrickdavey 3y agoIf you are going to try it... I'd discussed it with my two wonderful co-organisers before we put it to the group... and, we really would have shut it down. I think if you just half threaten, well, might not work so well :) We used a doodle.com poll with a set of months and just let people say which one(s) they could do. Best of luck!