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Organizing User Meetups

Isabel Drost

Nighttime: Organizer of Berlin Hadoop Get Together.

Co-Organizer NoSQL Meetup Berlin

Daytime:Software developer @ Berlin

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Schedule – part 1

● Set a date.

● Speaker (local, user-/dev-lists).

● Location (seats, beamer, drinks).

● PRC (mailing lists, press, twitter, blog).

Speakers

Having a preset schedule helps.

Date

Location

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Press

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Track participant numbers

Number of attendees

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Thanks to Alex Lang for the picture.

HowTo

Announcements

● 4 weeks in advance.

● Reminder.

Start with introductions

Stick to the schedule

But not too strict.

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General lessons learned

Ask for help.

● Co-Organizers.

● Speakers.

● Sponsoring.

Keep in touch

● Names are important.

● Try to get contact details.

Get Feedback

● What was good and what was bad?

● Integrate attendees in decisions.

● What do YOU want to see?

January 8, 2008 by dreizehn28

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Dec., 16th 2009: Hadoop* Get Together in Berlin

● Jörg Möllenkamp: “Hadoop”

● nugg.ad: “Recommending ads with Hadoop”

● Nikolaus Pohle: “Analysing user behaviour with Hadoop”

newthinking store

Tucholskystr. 48

March 2009: Hadoop* Get Together in Berlin.● Exact date up to first speaker, that is: You!

* UIMA, Hbase, Lucene, Solr, katta, Mahout, CouchDB, pig, Hive, Cassandra, Cascading, JAQL, ... talks welcome as well.

Dec., 16th 2009: Hadoop* Get Together in Berlin

● Jörg Möllenkamp: “Hadoop”

● nugg.ad: “Recommending ads with Hadoop”

● Nikolaus Pohle: “Analysing user behaviour with Hadoop”

newthinking store

Tucholskystr. 48

March 2009: Hadoop* Get Together in Berlin.● Exact date up to first speaker, that is: You!

Zanox Berlin Hadoop developer * UIMA, Hbase, Lucene, Solr, katta, Mahout, CouchDB, pig, Hive, Cassandra, Cascading, JAQL, ... talks welcome as well.

January 8, 2008 by dreizehn28

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