Re: [UG-ADMINS] Introduction: PHPJutland in Denmark

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Hey Michelangelo & Boyan.

Thank you very much for the replies, I'll be sure to look at this when
organising the next meetup.

We have had a few speakers from outside the country, Two have skyped in
from the states, and one has come from Germany. The Skyping wasn't a great
success, so we'll stick to live speakers, but I'll definitely be trying
some of the other formats for a meetup.

We would love to have you speak at some point, Michelangelo, I'll keep you
on our list of speakers :-)

Thank you for your ideas and suggestions.
- Jesper

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:25 AM Michelangelo van Dam <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey Boyan,
>
>
> All this reminds me I still have to come down to Varna and speak at your
> user group! Let's make it happen in 2018!!!
>
> Michelangelo
>
> *Michelangelo van Dam*
> Sr. Web Application Architect, Test Automator & Microsoft Azure MVP
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> On 17 May 2018, at 10:17, Boyan Yordanov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hey Jesper,
>
> Congrats for running the user group for more than a year already!
>
> I feel your pain. Our group in Varna, Bulgaria suffers from pretty much
> the same problems. People were really hesitant to even show up at first a=
nd
> most of the =E2=80=9Cregular=E2=80=9D speakers in the country are located=
 in the capitol
> (Sofia) which is a 5-6 hours drive.
>
> My observation is that people started offering talks more after I did a
> few. And after a year and a half I continue to speak every third meetup.
> I=E2=80=99ve experimented with other formats like lightning talks with mi=
xed
> results. Also a personal encouragement and offer to help from the
> organizers seems to go a long way with prospective speakers.
>
> As for reaching out my personal experience is that word of mouth and
> people bringing their colleagues and friends with them works best. Also
> having a present on all popular platforms in the country. Currently we
> still have more people showing up trough the Facebook events than trough
> meetup.com <http://meetup.com/> because that=E2=80=99s more popular in Bu=
lgaria.
>
>
> On the bright side it=E2=80=99s awesome that you have inspired others to =
start
> similar events.
>
> As long as people show up you can even grab a drink and talk php without
> talks and still have a really productive event and a good time for
> everyone.
>
> Keep up the good work and good luck!
>
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2018 at 3:00, Jesper =C3=98stertoft Jacobsen <
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>>=
>
> wrote:
> Hello UG-Admins
>
> I am Jesper Jacobsen, I run the Danish PHPJutland group.
>
>
> We've been up and running for a year and a half now, and are finally
> starting to gain some real traction.
>
> However, developers in Denmark are still very shy, as there has been no
> precedence for meetups or the likes beforehand. Luckily it's contagious,
> and companies that has hosted us has started to do similar events.
>
> What's your best advice for reaching out to new users, and to potential
> speakers?
> It's currently quite the challenge to find speakers as they are shy, and
> Denmark is quite split. About 50% of the developers we can use as speaker=
s
> are located in the capitol, Copenhagen, about three hours away. We have h=
ad
> speakers from there before, but I don't think we can do that every time.
> Aarhus, where we're located has a lot of great companies, but they aren't
> very keen on speaking, unfortunately.
> I'd be glad to hear anything you can tell me about running a Meetup, as I
> still feel very new to the whole process.
>
>
> Thank you very much
> - Jesper
>
>
>
> Boyan Yordanov
> [email protected]
>
> Organizer of PHP Varna  <http://phpvarna.com/>
> Software Engineer @ ShtrakBG
> Find me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/specter_bg>
>
>
>

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