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@redhat.com> wrote:

On 01/19/2015 04:07 PM, Adam Lawson wrote:

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.

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Rich Bowen - rbowen@redhat.com
OpenStack Community Liaison
http://openstack.redhat.com/

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