Outreach: Meetups

Starting Your Meetup

A reminder: Ansible Inc. can help you get your meetup off the ground. The guidelines are available on the Ansible web site here.

Running a Meetup

A great set of general tips can be found here (Google doc, thanks to Haisam Ido for the help).

Some Other Tips

Some tips to getting off the ground:

Small: create an event "chat about Ansible" and locate it at a coffeeshop or library or someplace like that. Cap attendance at 10, just in case you accidentally overrun the place. No agenda, just hang out and share Ansible stories. If you end up with a waiting list, that's a sign to move up to medium.

Medium: find a place with a projector and do a simple talk, like "Ansible 101" (it's on our plate to put together a standard deck for this.) Can be pretty much any company's office, and you can solicit on the group: "hey members, can anyone host this?" Look for someone to sponsor pizza/snacks/drinks, and if you can't find anyone, we're happy to cover it. Cap attendance at 50, and if that ends up with a waiting list, move to large.

Large: solicit actively for multiple co-organizers and multiple sponsors. Solicit membership for content on a regular basis. Consider dividing tasks between organizers.