Re: Followups from Council phone call monday — Budget discussion for this year and beyond

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As a data point, Ansible has 10k meetup members worldwide. Cost is less
than 5k annually.
On Oct 15, 2015 5:23 AM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> [1]  Frankly, I'd like to get rid of the talks.  Or if not remove them
> >> entirely, make them extremely focused on problems that need to be
> >> solved in Fedora rather than just "here is some cool software I'm
> >> working on".  The audience of the talks seems to still be the
> >> traditional "introductory/new user" set, and that set isn't even
> >> present at Flock.
> >
> > I think the talks - particularly, prepared talks - can provide good
> > focus, and can be a useful way of communicating. So I'd advocate for
> > the second approach, of making them more specifically focused on
> > contributors, problem solving, project needs and direction, and
> > similar.
> >
> > I also agree that moving Flock away from user outreach leaves a vacuum
> > there in NA and EMEA.
>
> I've often wondered why we don't do the "Fedora Meetup" model. It
> seems to work very well for the likes of Ansible and ElasticSearch
> where they create a meetup group, provide a template for organising a
> meetup in the local area that is easy for people to pick up on, if
> someone picks up and runs with it they send some swag or similar,
> possibly even have some default talk slide decks that some local
> contributors can present as a starting point.
>
> The advantage of something likely meetup.com is that you get wider
> advertising of your event through the "meetups happening in your area
> this week" through the site and it's quite a low barrier for entry for
> local people because it's generally a few hours of an evening to
> attend in a location that's generally not massively out of the way.
>
> The meetups in London I've been to (Ansible, ElasticSearch, London
> DevOps and a few others) generally have a couple of short
> presentations and then head off to the nearest pub. Often a local
> business might well sponsor the event whether by providing the
> location for the presentation, or some pizzas or both.
>
> It would be a great thing to enable the various Ambassadors to get
> involved in, It would require a central resource(s) to manage the
> meetup group and do some co-ordindation in the organizing of the
> meetup group and ensuring a level of quality but seeing how large some
> of the other meetup groups grow (I've seen some that are operating
> 100s of meetup locations) I suspect it might be worth the effort.
>
> Peter
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