Umbraco meetups organizer guide

This guide aims to help Umbracians who would like to start their local Umbraco meetup group. These are general guidelines based on the experience of the Umbraco meetups organizers, as well as other communities that have been doing an impressive job building and maintaining community events.

Meetup.com provides as well a more detailed list of resources for the organizers:

• Meetup.com's Organizer stories, tips, and best practices
• Meetup.com's Organizers Network

If you would like to contribute to this guide, your ideas and suggestions are more than welcome! Feel free to edit and share your tips.

Content

• Starting and Running an Umbraco Meetup Group
  • Who can start an Umbraco meetup group?
  • How likely is it that the meetup group will be successful?
  • How do I set up a new Umbraco meetup group?
  • Umbraco Meetup Pro Network
    • What is Meetup Pro?
    • What do I get from being part of the network?
    • How do I get access to the Network?

• How do I promote the new meetup group?
• Content and speakers
• Checklist: Before the meetup
• Checklist: The day of the meetup
• Checklist: After the meetup
• Running virtual meetups
• I can't find speakers or my speaker canceled. What else can I do?
• My meetup only gets a few people, what am I doing wrong?
• I cannot keep up and I would like to step down
• Community resources
  • Connect with other Umbraco meetup organizers
  • Get inspiration from other formats
  • 6 practical tips from Heather
  • Copy Alan's Trello board
  • Good to read
• Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Django Girls, Hyperledger, Go Meetup, Meetup.com, and Write the Docs resources, whose Meetups organizers' guides inspired these guidelines.