March 11th, 2020 meetup organization

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Belgian PowerShell meetup tasklist

Introduction

Issues in the meetup repository are used to help organize and setup a meetup.
You can use the following checklist to organize the next in-person meetup.

Anything goes as long as it follows a couple of rules:

• it has PowerShell in it :-)
• it respects everybody that is part of our community and beyond.

Format

Currently we only have one format (in-person) meetups, but as we grow we might extend to different formats like on-line meetups, PowerShell Saterdays. etc.

In-person meetups

Our primary focus when organizing meetups.
Currently we see the format as:

• 2 main sessions (30-45min)
• 3 lighting talks (10min)

The lighting talks lower the bar to engage new speakers and build a stronger community.

Meetup tasks

In-person meetup

Event registration

• create eventbrite event
• add meetup to BEPUG\meetups (readme.md and meetup date folder)

Marketing

• announce event at regular intervals
• create scheduled announcements (speaker and session specific)
• update meetup folder with speaker info and session info
• add event to techcommunity.microsoft.com
• create linkedin update and share

Speaker engagement\ information

• engage speakers
• provide speakers eventbrite registration
• provide event location information and ppt

Event hosting

• fix event location
• food and drinks
• create intro slides with speaker info and sponsor
• create outro slides, request for speakers and location
• organize beer quiz

post event tasks

• invite speaker to create a pull request for session materials
• provide post-event feedback (pictures, etc) via social media channel(s)