Making a JS meetup blow minds
summary
Starts on meetup.com to email a local seed list then grows from about eight people to 500 in two years with regular crowds of ~100. Uses a two speakers format with each given 45 minutes or less, pushes for deep technical content, and follows talks with beer after to recruit future speakers and build community. Leverages partners (Joyent, Mozilla), coworking or university rooms and projectors, takes photos to drive turnout and the model proves repeatable.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:30Getting Started
- 2:21Two Speakers
- 3:46Format
- 4:43Beer
- 6:12When
- 10:04Topics
- 11:25Partners
- 13:12Space
- 14:50Reward
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