Guide on how to start a meetup

[reconbot]

Meetups currently don't have many rules.

• They have to follow the code of conduct
• They should be about learning from each other
• They usually meet monthly and participate in nodebots day

These rules however aren't a guide on how to run a meetup. Can people share how they run theirs? And maybe we can put together a small document on this.

Thanks to @salmanfaris for raising this.

[reconbot]

Nodebots NYC meets once a month for storytime and hacknight, and usually once a month (two weeks later) for a workshop.

Story Time and HackNight events (15-20 people)

We have a website and a meetup page and people sign up. I recruit one person to tell us about something they've learned. High tech or low tech, newbie or old pro, doesn't matter. And they spend 10-15 minutes telling us their story and we ask questions and have a discussion about the project, tech or experience.

Then we break into groups and build things together for an hour or two. We have some tools on hand and people bring the projects they're working on.

Workshops (20-40 people)

We have two workshop presentations that we use. One is more of a lecture and the other is very self directed.

• Self directed https://nodebots.github.io/education/nodebots-nyc-nyjs-arduino-workshop/
• Lecture https://nodebots.github.io/education/nodebots-fundamentals-workshop/

We have a bunch of J5IK Kits and a Lot of Arduino Inventor kits (see kits on the homepage) for these workshops. We were lucky enough to have a large donation so we could teach with them. (They spend time at schools too!) On workshop nights people don't have to bring anything but their computer.

[salmanfarisvp]

Thanks . Looking forward <3