[PATCH] D61550: Add recommendations on how to start a meetup in your city

Mon May 6 00:19:00 PDT 2019

kristof.beyls added inline comments.

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Comment at: llvm/docs/MeetupGuidelines.rst:48
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+* It’s a great idea to have several talks scheduled for several upcoming
+  meetups to get the ball rolling.
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hintonda wrote:
> This seems to assume meetups should be semi formal affairs with speakers -- was that your intent?
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> I've only been to a dozen or so socials in Mountain View, and none of them had speakers -- they're just socials.  People tend to congregate in small groups and have informal discussions.  I like this format because it give me a chance to discuss ad-hoc topics, e.g, features I'd like to add or things I'm having difficulty with or don't fully understand.
I think that it might be better to structure this document roughly as "Please adapt your social/meetups to what will work best for your specific situation; here are a number of ideas you can take into account when designing your specific social."

Having a talk or a roadmap of talks may work well for some socials and less well for other socials. My guess is that the Mountain View social is unique in that it has a much higher chance of an expert being present for most areas of LLVM; something that is probably less likely at socials elsewhere. Which has an impact on what the "optimal" design for the social is.

I think one of the most important points is to encourage adapting and if necessary experimenting with the format to what works locally.

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