Re: [UG-ADMINS] Re: Introduction - phplx - Lisbon, Portugal
[email protected] (D Keith Casey Jr)
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If you have a reluctant group, lightning talks can be good too. About 4-5 10 minute talks, works out the same as a full talk and people are *way* less intimidated by that. Here are a few prompts that I've seen work: - demo your latest project; - show us your favorite software tool; - show us how you solved a recent problem; - show us your favorite open source project; - show us the tool/project you *want* to use but haven't been able to; - how do you manage X? Also, if someone is *really* bad, it's only 10 minutes instead of an hour.. luckily that's not an issue very often. kc On 01/06/2013 10:33 AM, Daniel Gomes wrote: > Thanks all for the suggestions. > > I will follow them on the next meetups :) > > Happy New Year for you all! > > Cheers, > Daniel Gomes > > 2012/12/26 Patrick Schwisow <[email protected]> > >> Daniel, >> >> Ask your group members! First as a group (ask what topics they want to >> hear and who they want to hear), and then ask individuals ("Hey, you seem >> to know a lot about X. Would you be willing to share that with the group >> next month?") >> >> I also try to keep in communication with other local tech groups (besides >> PHP) and PHP groups that are a little farther away. They may have a >> presenter that could be of interest to your group members. (I recently had >> the organizer of a nearby WordPress group give a talk on version control >> and git.) >> >> And don't forget about yourself. It's good as a backup (if a speaker >> cancels), but also good experience to be the speaker every once in a >> while. I'm planning to give a soon talk that I'm polishing up for a >> conference. >> >> Good luck! >> Patrick >> >> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gomes <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> One thing that seems to be difficult (at least here in Portugal) is to >>> find >>> speakers for the meetups. How do you usually find them? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel Gomes >>> >>> >>> 2012/12/20 Daniel Gomes <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> First of all let me introduce myself. I'm Daniel Gomes, and I'm >>> starting * >>>> phplx* with a group of people. >>> >>>> >>>> We will do monthly meetups about PHP and related topics in Lisbon, >>>> Portugal. >>>> >>>> We had our first meetup this month and was a sucess, we had 41 attendees >>>> and a lot of sponsors and prizes to raffle at the end. >>>> >>>> We are having some struggle for the second one but we hope to be better >>>> than the first :) One important point was we kept some of our sponsors. >>>> >>>> We are on Google Groups< >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/phplx>, >>>> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/409189425813464>, Twitter< >>> https://twitter.com/phplx>, >>>> Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/phplx>, Google+< >>> https://plus.google.com/108441509849374256053>, >>> > meetup.com <http://www.meetup.com/php-lx/> and also a website< >>> http://phplx.net>(for now is simple html since we have a sponsor working >>> on our website :) ) >>> >>>> >>>> Any advices or tips are welcome, and also if someone of you want to >>> make a >>>> visit to Portugal we would be glade to have you speaking in our meetups. >>>> >>>> Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Gomes >>>> >>>> *p:* 00351 938185709 >>>> >>>> Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcsgomes> | Blog< >>> http://danielcsgomes.com/> >>>> | About Me <http://about.me/danielcsgomes> | Geeklist< >>> http://geekli.st/danielcsgomes> >>>> >>>> ZCE PHP 5.3< >>> http://www.zend.com/en/store/education/certification/yellow-pages.php#show-ClientCandidateID=ZEND019952 >>>> >>>> | CSM <http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/171004-daniel-gomes> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Gomes >>> >>> *p:* 00351 938185709 >>> >>> Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcsgomes> | >>> Blog<http://danielcsgomes.com/> >>> | About Me <http://about.me/danielcsgomes> | >>> Geeklist<http://geekli.st/danielcsgomes> >>> >>> ZCE PHP 5.3< >>> http://www.zend.com/en/store/education/certification/yellow-pages.php#show-ClientCandidateID=ZEND019952 >>>> >>> | CSM <http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/171004-daniel-gomes> >>> >> >> > > -- D. Keith Casey, Jr. http://CaseySoftware.com Do you like gorillas? Do you like running? Why not support me in the Austin Gorilla Run: http://bit.ly/gorillaKC ?