[group-organizers] Sources of advice for growing your user group.

[Catherine Devlin]

Two "not quite the droid you're looking for" ideas:

1. http://www.apcug.net/

Hey, David, looks like you're in range of this:http://ldc.apcug.org/

2. Science-fiction fandom is not exactly the same as software geekdom
(PenguiCon notwithstanding), BUT when I asked this question, I was advised
to look into SMOFcon - the Secret Masters Of Fandom, a sort of meta-group
for SF geeks.  amk had also been to a SMOFcon years ago, for just this
purpose.

So I planned to go to their conference in Ohio... then got miserably sick
that weekend.  Oh well.

Next one's in Texas in December.  If any of you happen to be nearby, go for
it and report back!

http://alamo-sf.org/smofcon27/

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:34 PM, David Christian
<david.christian at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> One thought has occurred to me as I've been speaking to others about
> their user groups this weekend: almost none of the information and
> advice is python-specific!  (Though I do think that the technology
> does shape what works well for python groups).   Does anyone know of a
> place where advice and information on staring a user group is
> collated?
>

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- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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