Building BoroJS

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Built a monthly meetup network across Brooklyn Manhattan Queens and Jersey with a reproducible playbook: five 10-minute talks, GitHub pull-request signups, copied JS code of conduct, a fixed venue (61 Local), 3D‑printed tokens and later laser‑cut wooden metro cards, plus a house band and daytime pregame programming. It sells out—tickets sold out in 28 seconds and then 7 seconds—raises money for Scripted, drives sponsorship and swag (socks, plaques), and actually reduces the bar tab to $90 while spawning sibling meetups in other cities.

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1. 0:00Building BoroJS community
2. 3:00The birth of BrooklynJS and its inspiration
3. 7:15Planning with Brian Brennan
4. 10:26Ticketing and execution
5. 13:36Diverse meetup formats
6. 17:28Beverages and music innovation
7. 21:41Venue to programming hub
8. 24:10Fundraising for ScriptEd
9. 26:58Budgeting transparency
10. 28:22Growing BoroJS family
11. 30:49Global community growth
12. 31:50Call to action

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