Re: Request from help from Scala User Group :)

[Andy Hicks]

Hi Pere

You may be pleased/surprised how familiar this sounds, The original london ug had basically died when I took over and I had never organised anything before. On the first meetup I organised I was so convinced that nobody would turn up that I didn't even book a table/area, in the end about 20 people turned up and I was very surprised.

One think I would say is just to try to arrange a fixed day, ie first Wednesday of the month. This makes it much easier to plan around and everybody knows whats happening without thinking. Then you can start on what, pub/beer, dojo, talks (If you are looking for a dojo talk then we have done http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/kata_four_data_.html about 20 time with different groups)

Having said all that, I will now contradict everything by saying, how about arranging a study group around Martins course ( https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun ). If its only 3 people sitting in a pub going 'I don't understand question 2' then by then end of the 7 weeks then I would guess you have a good set of mates to start something more permanent.

Write an email for scala-user mailing list, nobody is worried about the first event being promoted. You could also send it to cakesolutions.com and 'this week in #scala'. I'm guessing they will be very happy to help out.

It is good fun and I've met lots of new people while running the London group.

Andy

ps: There is also a scala user group team leaders google group https://groups.google.com/d/forum/scala-user-groups it was setup after his years scaladays for things like your question, hasn't been used much. If thinks take off then you are more than happy to join.

On 2 September 2012 13:21, Pere Villega <arac...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to "resurrect" the Dublin Scala User Group. Thing is, to add to all "standard issues" of trying to organize a meeting of this style...I've never been a member of a user group! Yes, I know...

So, I'm wondering if any of you could drop a couple of hints on what to do for our 1st meeting. We will probably be just a few people, I don't expect more than 4-5, and I would like to avoid the 1st meeting being a failure :P

Cheers,

Pere Villega

[Pere Villega]

Thanks Andy,  the advice was great. I specially like the Coursera idea, it will be easy to set and can help us to start :)

Thanks a million!

[Andy Hicks]

I think organising a group could be easier than doing the homework :-)

Good luck with the group and let me know if you think I can help with anything.

Andy