Building Community Ross Derewianko – Macbrained_YVR
WHERE I GOT STARTED Started at Ping Identity in 2012 Got to learn this “new tool we bought called Jamf pro” CCA for V8 2014 Started - Vancouver JUG
First JUG 20 Registered, topic was open source tools. Co hosted with Scott LaPaglia in Denver
What actually happened 1 Attendee
Meeting 2, 3 and 4 Low attendance but growing Tough to wrangle content Ran it on my own
2015 Vancouver JUG becomes Vancouver MacAdmins
2016 Vancouver MacAdmins becomes "Macrained_YVR” Macbrained_YVR
Starting Macbrained_YVR
First Official Chapter Step one - Plan
Step two - meet!
Step three - Feedback What did you dislike? Keep an eye on the clock. It's hard to do when you're both the organizers and participants.
Step three - Feedback
The hard part of hosting a meetup
Hardest part of hosting a meetup Attendees Content and Speakers Venue
Attendees Tell Everyone! Slack – Local, Regional, Country MacE – Do an announce Talk to your local apple store Reach out to Jamf Integrators or ACN partners Create a Local Mailing list
Content and Speakers Start by targeting your planning team. Challenge them each to speak on something. Be on the lookout for remote speakers. People are doing cool things. Sessions don’t have to be deep dives, eg “WWDC what did you learn”
Venue Some companies are willing to host Some companies are even willing to provide food and or libations
Conistency Have a plan of when you’ll have meetups and stick to it. Macbrained_YVR is every quarter. Cascadia MacAdmins (seattle) is every third Thursday.
Format Doors open - half hour for arrivals (could be held back 15 mins extra) Intos -Round table attendees introduce themselves Host Thank you Announcements –upcoming meetups, conferences and other events people may be interested Who’s hiring – We’ll try and find a few job postings before but we’ll also have our attendees speak Meeting Content Thank you and wrap up.
Don’t go at it alone
Thank you ROSS DEREWIANKO Ping_RD rderewianko rderewianko.com
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