[Meetup Scala Days 2014] - Balancing your user group - beginners vs. advanced topics

[Renato Cavalcanti]

It seems that all user groups are facing this issue. How to attract beginners? How to avoid scaring new members with talks on advanced topics?

Tips:

• Be explicit about the talks in a meetup, which level is it intended to.
• Two talks on the same day. First part introductory talk, second part more advanced. As such both subgroups have a piece of the cake.
• When organising introductory talk, try to involve the Java User Group or at least promote it there.

Renato

[Sebastian Nozzi]

Good tips.

We also noticed the problem and came to similar conclusions. Have you had the chance to test your ideas? Did they work?

Something that we also thought about (but did not implement yet) was to hold regular introductory workshops for beginners.

We also have many people that subscribe to the meetup group, but come only a couple of times and never again... (do you also?)

I think that it is somehow an inherent "problem" (feature ;-) of Scala, that being it so broad inevitably you have people doing very advanced / esoteric stuff and others barely starting.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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[Sebastian Nozzi]

Rafa also had the idea of "office hours" taken from here:

http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours

2014-06-27 22:08 GMT+02:00 Renato Cavalcanti <ren...@bescala.org>:

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