Hi 2017 has been one of the best years for BangPypers - we tried theme based meetups multiple times, a meetup with only fifteen minutes duration, and paid workshops. All our events are a full house. For paid workshops [0], eighty percent ticket purchasers attend the meetup, and close to fifty percent of interested participants attend the free meetups.
It has taken a lot of time, effort, belief, patience, acting on feedback to reach the current place. At the same time, previously discussed plans like webcast, regular blog posts didn’t happen [1]. The volunteering team is facing time constraints to organize the meetups. For last one year, we didn’t hold any beginner workshop. The meetup group has more than 6000 members. Hosting multiple meetups(talks and workshops) a month will benefit the community. Volunteers [2] are struggling and don’t have time to organize a meetup every month. Here is the blog post which explains how the meetup is run [3]. The volunteer team spends 15 hours doing various tasks like coordinating with hosts, discuss with speakers, answering members query, act on feedback, and other logistics. In the interest of the group to foster, it’s good time to have new volunteers to lead and manage the meetup efforts. We’re looking for *long* term volunteers. Long-term means you have time and energy to volunteer for at least a year. Please think multiple times, before showing interest. Please read the blog post [3] and wiki [4]. If you’re interested, please fill the form [5]. What happens once you fill the form? One of the volunteers will contact you in next few days. If you’re interested then, you will become part of the organizing team, and we will add you to telegram planning group. You can start doing tasks like sending out emails to ML, meetup group, schedule meetup, begin contacting hosts for future meetups. You will be made as co-organizer of the meetup group, and part of all the discussions. You will get guidance on what, how, why we do a meetup in specific ways. I have a few doubts, before filling the form. What should I do? You can ask the doubts on the mailing list or write an email or call or ping in WhatsApp/Telegram to Kracekumar or Abhiram. What is it like volunteering at BangPypers? It’s fun, energy draining, intensive, spare free time to organize the meetup and have an impact on others livelihood. You will meet a lot of new people, have exciting conversations, developers will walk into you at other events and thank you for your work. You will make friends. [0]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Z3ImPbIalMkh83_G05ZmarXnylriyriiRmpEc-YRsY/edit#gid=0 [1]: http://bangalore.python.org.in/ [2]: https://www.meetup.com/BangPypers/members/?op=leaders [3]: http://bangalore.python.org.in/blog/2017/06/03/how-bangpypers-is-run/ [4]: https://github.com/pythonindia/bangalore.python.org.in/wiki [5]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIIq2wy0zWhzE103Q6R0tptsZSaZGapAE2ROmSgTJ2yS4jzA/viewform Feel free to ask your questions. -- Thanks & Regards kracekumar http://kracekumar.com _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
