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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

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Building Community

Ross Derewianko – Macbrained_YVR

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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

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First JUG

20 Registered, topic was open source tools. Co hosted with Scott LaPaglia in Denver

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What actually happened

1 Attendee

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Meeting 2, 3 and 4

Low attendance but growing Tough to wrangle content Ran it on my own

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2015

Vancouver JUG becomes Vancouver MacAdmins

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2016

Vancouver MacAdmins becomes "Macrained_YVR” Macbrained_YVR

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Starting Macbrained_YVR

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First Official Chapter Step one - Plan

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Step two - meet!

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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.

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Step three - Feedback

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The hard part of hosting a meetup

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Hardest part of hosting a meetup

Attendees Content and Speakers Venue

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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

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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”

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Venue

Some companies are willing to host Some companies are even willing to provide food and or libations

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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.

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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.

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Don’t go at it alone

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ROSS DEREWIANKO

Ping_RD rderewianko rderewianko.com

Thank you