I'd like to echo Doug's advice of finding co-organizers. Being a sole organizer can be overwhelming... maybe not at first but at some point you may want to take a break or have a partner or two to hold you accountable.
I go to meetups mostly for the socializing, but having at least one talk topic can be helpful for adding structure and learning to the event. We moved to a lightning talk format in the past and we've found that it seems to work pretty well. New members and new programmers seem much more comfortable committing to a 5 minute talk than committing to a 25 minute talk. A shorter talk format also opens the door to topics that are much more niche. Best of luck with your Python club! :) On 02/02/2016 07:36 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> On Jan 31, 2016, at 2:20 AM, Lekan Wahab <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello guys. >> My name is Lekan. >> I run a Python Club on campus (Obafemi Awolowo University). >> However, considering the fact that am a fresh man and have limited >> capabilities, I was wondering if someone could help me with tips on how >> well to manage the club's activities. >> >> Lekan Wahab > My advice is to not try to do everything yourself. Find one or two other > members who are interested in helping, and split up the work of finding > speakers (yes, you don’t have to speak at every meeting yourself), etc. > > To find speakers for the Atlanta, Georgia meetup, I talk to our members about > what they are working on. We have members at all different levels of > experience, but each of them is doing something interesting. I don’t think > I’ve had a single meeting at which I didn’t find someone I could ask to > prepare a short talk for us for a later meeting. Inviting someone > individually with a specific topic in mind has been much more effective than > sending out general emails to all of the members. > > We also build some time for socializing into our meetings, so members can get > to know each other, catch up with friends, etc. That makes the meeting fun, > even if the talk we have scheduled isn’t on a topic of interest to everyone > in the group. > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers -- Trey Hunner Technical Trainer, Teacher http://treyhunner.com _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
