Hosting Events that the Whole Community Loves
summary
Clear operational playbook: how to run 29 public camps a year under $150 a ticket, scale community-run meetups to 75 cities 130 meetings/year, and schedule contributor events quarterly while keeping two hackday-style online events. Concrete processes include CFP rules (50% puppet content), six weeks to plan a hack day versus months for a summit, a failed triage event that became a focused online pound puppet hack with quality-over-quantity rules, plus a code of conduct and a diversity program that quadrupled proposals from women.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Planning your events
- 1:29Purpose of your events
- 3:12What are your current touch points
- 3:49What do they value a need
- 4:46Planning a variety of events
- 7:36Structure
- 9:50Partnerships
- 11:10Set Expectations
- 11:27Things to Consider
- 12:15Feedback Loop
- 13:57Surveys
- 17:15Document
- 18:49Promotion
- 20:47Puppet User Groups
- 22:09Puppet Camp
- 23:19How we solicit talks
- 24:33How we host contributor events
- 26:25How we host user events
- 27:04How we vet user groups
- 29:11Online vs inperson events
- 29:30Online events
- 30:21Measuring participation
- 30:59Inperson events
- 31:25Creating safe spaces
- 31:44Code of Conduct
- 33:53Diversity
- 35:02You
- 36:47Take Away
- 38:00Gnome House
- 38:23Questions
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