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Great idea. I am in. :)
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Weekdays may not work for individual rubyists like me.
Around what time are we thinking on 6th July?
-Sudarshan.
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Yawn
Use droptask.
Or even Google spread sheet is great. We organized whole conference using spread sheets :-)
Ajey
Trello works for me.
Thanks.
Sudarshan Shubakar.
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I'll give you the same advice I gave the folks behind PythonPune. Don't work too hard at building/setting up something to submit and vote on talks. It's not like you're going to be beating away speakers with a stick; more like you're going to be hunting them down in the Amazon without a map or a guide, armed with just a pair of scratched-up, old binoculars. So, take it from someone who's tried, even a Google Spreadsheet is Too Much(TM). I'm sure Gautam will be more than happy to narrate how much fun it is to find people to speak once a month, leave aside speak on interesting topics.
Do what the BRUG does; put up a notice of when and where the Meetup will be and wait for attendees and speakers to 'emerge'.
http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/ is a good place to start putting up the notices. They already have a good following going which should give you a fair bit of reach. However, if you insist on having your own independent branding, have the Organizer of PuneRailsMeetup create a new Meetup for you 'cause Meetup allows an Organizer to run up to 3 meetups at no additional cost. Have them Xpost the first few meetups and when you've got enough traction, stop bugging them.
As for speakers, the best option is to have members volunteer, but in my experience, that lasts about 3 meet ups; that's about how much time it takes for people to figure out the effort required to put in a talk. :) At this point, the 'hunt' begins. Alternatively, you could have members nominate speakers/talks and leverage that with peer pressure. But, that'll only get you so far. The key is to get enough people in the community comfortable as well as capable enough that they can get past the 3 Meetup horizon.
As for the schedule for the Meetup, I'm sure you'll have that discussion at your first one. All I can say is that I wish you luck on that discussion. It is rarely interesting but almost always divided. :P I suggest you simply stick to the timing you have decided now till actual data (asses in seats at meet ups) suggests that it isn't working. The pick another time and rinse-repeat!
Feel free to get back to me with any queries/comments you may have.
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- d
- stuff like trello, pivotal and asana are wonderfully organized but not very efficient unless you have a gated community since you need to manage user identities.
- Google spreadsheet is a little more free form and let's you organize flexibly, but still does identities. However that worked out well for us with RCI as the entire org team had gmail.com identities. Google forms are a little more relaxed about identities, but end up being TooMuch(TM) work for a Meetup.
- email/mailing lists pretty much evade all these issues but tend to get very disorganized, very fast!
- wikis are a bit better but tend to get spammed, especially if we end up posting URLs and emails.
I'm yet to find something that can strike just the right balance, so it's usually a game of tradeoffs. But, we should be used to that by now, what with our years of experience in software architecture & design, right? :P
- d