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This file explains the following :

  1. The Ansible Meetup Strategy
  2. Organization Guidelines and Permissions

@anweshadas anweshadas requested a review from gundalow September 22, 2025 15:06
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Thank you for this

  1. Please run the document through a spell checker (en_US), there are a few typos in this.
  2. Replace any double spaces with single space.


### Sustainability & Consistency

Establish a robust organizational structure and a clear, repeatable process (as different steps explained in the toolkit) is to ensure meetups run consistently (e.g., monthly/bi-monthly) without relying solely on a single individual.
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Establish a robust organizational structure and a clear, repeatable process (as different steps explained in the toolkit) is to ensure meetups run consistently (e.g., monthly/bi-monthly) without relying solely on a single individual.
Establish a robust organizational structure and a clear, repeatable process (as different steps explained in the toolkit) is to ensure meetups run consistently (e.g., monthly/quarterly) without relying solely on a single individual.

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Edited accordingly.


1. Code of Conduct (CoC)

Strict adherence to the Ansible Community Code of Conduct is mandatory for all participants (organizers, sponsors, attendees). The organizer must announce the CoC contact person at every event.
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Strict adherence to the Ansible Community Code of Conduct is mandatory for all participants (organizers, sponsors, attendees). The organizer must announce the CoC contact person at every event.
Strict adherence to the [Ansible Code of Conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/code_of_conduct.html) is mandatory for all participants (organizers, sponsors, attendees). The organizer MUST announce the CoC contact person at every event, for example as part of the introduction.

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Added as suggested.


5. Deletion of the any meetup chapter

If an Ansible meetup group does not host a meetup, event, or workshop for X + months, Ansible or Red Hat may stop paying for the group after informing them by email (using the address on meetup.org). If a group remains inactive for X consecutive months in a calendar year, it shall be deleted.
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If an Ansible meetup group does not host a meetup, event, or workshop for X + months, Ansible or Red Hat may stop paying for the group after informing them by email (using the address on meetup.org). If a group remains inactive for X consecutive months in a calendar year, it shall be deleted.
Red Hat reserves the right to stop paying for a Meetup group if it has been inactive for a long time, and doesn't show any signs of returning. This will only happen after the members and any organizer have been consulted.

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I differ on the phrase of "long term". Instead of the unspecified time frame (mentioned as "long term") , we should have a specified and definite duration (as mentioned in the proposed document). This will help the community on the timeline, what to expect and the level of engagement they need to put in. Specifying the time will help us to avoid the misunderstanding and mismatch of expectation as in the future.

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1. Organizer
2. Co-Organizer
3. Presenter/Speaker
4. Sponsor
5. Attendee
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  • Pro Admin: Ansible Community Team is the owner of Ansible on Meetup Pro
  • Co-Organizer: Local organizers that are hosting events (not sponsors unless they are also hosting events)
  • Presenter/Speaker
  • Sponsor
  • Members: Attendees

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Edited it accordingly.


6. Communication

Every meetup organizers shall use the regular and/common communication medium in the Ansible ecosystem, i.e Ansible Forum, Bullhorn, Ansible Community Newsletter and the dedicated (ansible social) Matrix rooam.
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Please include links.
Let's ensure it's easy for people to take the needed actions.

Also include
The auto-generated event pages should have a reply with links to slides and discussions. That is how the organizer should inform all members of the Meetup Group after the event has taken place.

We want the event-slides tag, added. Only a Forum Admin can do that, so they will need to notify us.

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Added the links.


Following are the basic role and and permission of the abovementioned stakeholders.

1. Organizer
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This and following section need updating since we've moved to Meetup Pro, I think we will only give co-organizer from now on.

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Does the following roles to be treated as mentioned hereunder in the light of us moving to Meetup pro?

  • Organizer to be deemed as the Co-Organizer ; and
  • Co-Organizer to be deemed as the Associate Organizer

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In Meetup Pro, these are the permissions:

  • Network Admin
  • Co-organizer
  • Assistant organizer
  • Event organizer
  • Member

I think think we will only use the last three permissions for members

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anweshadas and others added 4 commits September 24, 2025 23:17
Co-authored-by: John Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: John Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
Co-authored-by: John Barker <john@johnrbarker.com>
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