Open Stack

We started a meetup last November, 50 signed up, 17 showed up. We sent
invites via various IT/Tech Usergroups in Facebook. We want to do this
regularly, our next one will be on February.



On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 01/19/2015 04:07 PM, Adam Lawson wrote:
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>> I've been contemplating starting a new OpenStack meet-up and an excited
>> about meeting with and hearing what folks are doing in the local area.
>>
>> While continue working on this, I'm wondering how others who have
>> created user groups got the word out and evangelized?
>>
>>
> It's important not to get discouraged with the first meeting, if only 3 or
> 4 people show up. They'll tell other people who will be annoyed that they
> missed it, and the second time will be better. So the first time, just tell
> the people you know are interested, and then they'll help you get the word
> out the next time.
>
> Also, make sure you get it listed on Meetup.com so that people who watch
> that will see it and help get the word out even farther.
>
> --
> Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
> OpenStack Community Liaison
> http://openstack.redhat.com/
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