Taking an Idea to a Conversation to a Global Community
summary
Grassroots community starts in 2015 with a question and a LinkedIn forum, partners with Cloudera/SAP/IBM/MapR, runs a first hands-on Apache Hadoop workshop (40 seats, 120 signups) by Feb 2016, scales to 15 volunteers to 17,000+ members across 41 chapters in 23 countries by 2020–21, offers hundreds of free technical and soft-skill trainings, shifts to Zoom/YouTube and on-demand recordings in the pandemic, and faces scale challenges around infrastructure, funding, people and legal/operating strategy while measuring success by member satisfaction and surveyed outcomes.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to panel
- 3:16Women in Big Data origins
- 8:14EMEA community growth
- 12:07South Africa chapter launch
- 17:24Bootstrapping the first chapter
- 23:03Scaling strategies and growth
- 30:06Pandemic adaptation and social media
- 40:48Challenges of scaling globally
- 45:37Measuring success and impact
- 50:13Audience engagement and next steps
- 53:24Career and community lessons
- 1:01:10Closing remarks and Q&A
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