Finding and Organizing a Great Cloud Foundry User Group
summary
Practical playbook for starting a Cloud Foundry meetup: use Meetup.com for discovery, expect ~30–40% turnout of RSVPs, schedule on Tuesday–Thursday evenings (fourth Tuesday works), avoid Aug/Nov/Dec, and reuse venues and partners (OpenStack, Big Data groups) to boost attendance. Target launch talks on architecture, demos, Docker/OpenStack integration or apps on Bluemix; recruit co-organizers to sustain events. Data points: groups grew to 643 and 1,200 members, Bloomix outreach spans ~81 cities/30+ countries, and meetup slide content reached ~60,000 views, ~7,000 tweets, ~1.5M potential.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to Cloud Foundry meetups
- 1:48Why meetups matter and how to find them
- 9:57Starting a new user group
- 17:22Animesh’s Silicon Valley experience
- 30:44Summary and next steps
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