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Organising Events
Different ideas:
- Kickoff/Meet & Greet: Present your vision/idea for the meetup, invite others to help organise.
- Lightning talks: Short talks of 5 minutes on a range of topics. This format usually also has a low barrier to participate.
- Survey: Some chapters have set up an online questionnaire before their first meeting to find out what people were looking for in the meetup. Here are examples from Paris and Madrid.
- Making your group/event known: you can reach out to some other meetups in the area which might have overlapping audiences (e.g., data science meetup and R user groups) and universities (e.g., statistics departments).
- Finding co-organisers: Some chapters have found their organising team at the launch event, others have included a question on who would be interested in organising in the initial survey.
- Deciding on desired/feasible frequency of events (once a month, once every few months?)
- Appropriate event formats depending on profile of the local community. More academic, more industry? Talks, tutorials, lightning talks, drop-in sessions, socials? Working through online courses together?
- How to find venues to host meetups (for free!)
- How to find speakers
- Hot to find material: online courses, material developed by other R-Ladies (should in future go on the GitHub organisation)
- How to find sponsors for refreshments
- Event registration, management and data collection
- How to use Eventbrite to manage meetup attendance & data collection (or any equivalent local available platforms) - meetup is quite limited for managing events
- Set up Google Analytics on your meetup to collect data
- How to create R-Ladies Database
- Advertising, Publicity and Event Discovery: Twitter, LinkedIn, Eventbrite etc. (i.e., popular marketing channels and platforms in your area); Database (once developed!)
