[group-organizers] Community organizer's starter kit

[Vicky Twomey-Lee]

Hi Travis,

Vicky, organiser of Python & PyCon Ireland here.

I wonder if this is what people were talking about?
http://wiki.python.org/moin/StartingYourUsersGroup
I haven't really been reading up on how people set up groups, we are kind
of learning as we go along. :-)

There's a common foundation of setting up user groups for everyone, but
it's all dependent on who's setting it up and very culture-dependent. The
easy thing is setting one up, the hard part is keeping it going and keep
people interested in coming along.

My tip to a recent user group in HK was to keep having them on the same day
each month. They don't meet up in pubs if there's no talks, they meet up in
offices, unis, etc. But in Ireland (Dublin, Cork and Galway), our failsafe
has always been a pub.

Great idea though, can't wait to see what I can contribute from our side of
things.

Good luck!

Cheers,

/// Vicky

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Travis Swicegood <travis at domain51.com>wrote:

> Howdy all;
>
> At the organizer's open space Saturday night someone recommended that we
> start putting together (and consolidating) our documentation on GitHub to
> make it easy to contribute to.  Since we don't have a presence on GitHub, I
> reached out to a friend there and got us the @python user.
>
> There's apparently some documentation on python.org about setting up
> meetups.  Where might I find that?  I've created a community-starter-kit,
> but there's nothing more than a README right now.
>
> https://github.com/python/community-starter-kit
>
> -T
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