I'd suggest we start in Shanghai because there are more developers in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen, and I have more resources here in Shanghai.
I've asked some friends about the site fees. Normally, the price for a meeting room for 200 people is about ¥10,000-15,000 (USD $ 1500-2000) half-day. A friend from Microsoft offered a free meeting room with 100 seats in 漕河泾. Or we could consider conference rooms inside universities. For example, the price of a 250-seat room in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was the university I graduated from, is about ¥1,200 (USD $170) half day. This could save much money and more students can join the event. But the location is in 闵行 so it may be a little remote. *Which one do you prefer?* Other costs include providing drinking water and printed stickers or posters. I think the overall budget could be under ¥2000 (USD $300). So we could raise the money by ourselves and it could work even without sponsorship. About the topic, I'm thinking of keynotes from the PPMC and speeches from call-for-speakers, and lightning talks, whose durations are about 20-30min, 15-20min, and 5-10min. Here are some ideas of keynote topics: 1. Community and the Apache Way 2. ECharts products and what you can do with it 3. Algorithm and performance insights with ECharts 4. Cross-platform solution 5. 3D rendering with ECharts GL 6. How to make ECharts extensions Everyone, please give advice with your ideas! Wenli On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:24 PM Zu Ming <diysi...@163.com> wrote: > Great idea! > > > ECharts can introduce the design of the framework on meetup, so that > potential contributors can better understand how to do pr for ECharts. You > can also post the next demand plan and ask the developer what they need. > > > I look forward to further action. If there are more detailed plans could > be discussed together, such as content preparation, location, frequency of > activities, promotion plan, budget cost and so on. > > > > > > -- > Zu Ming > > > > At 2019-09-18 14:19:18, "Ovilia" <oviliazh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've been thinking about holding an ECharts offline meetup recently to > know > >more about our users and encourage more to join our community. > > > >I heard about many open source projects hold monthly or yearly events. I > >think we could start with one, and then see if it works. > > > >We can share about technical topics like code structure to help others > >understand the source code, and non-technical topics like the Apache Way, > >how to contribute, and etc. We could also learn from the community about > >what they used ECharts for and what do they need help with. > > > >What do you guys think about this? > > > >Wenli >
