Hi Yoyo, Thanks mate your feedback is appreciated... it would be awesome to do an international meetup sometime!
Other ways we publicised: LinkedIn - look for and join any cloud oriented groups and let them know. Twitter - hash tag OpenStack. The focus of our first events was for a casual event to gauge interest. Following these now that we've seen there is local interest enough to sustain a group, we're going to step things up a few notches for the next meetups. In the next couple of weeks I'm going to meet with the other vendors and sponsors and discuss plans. Following that I'll feedback our ideas and plans to the list and the wiki. I must say too that because we're a bunch of techies this kind of event planning has been quite a new experience for me and my team, but we're having a great time, the attendees are leaving happy and we know they're forming relationships around OpenStack. The next event can't come soon enough! Cheers Tristan > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-community-bounces+tristan=aptira....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+tristan=aptira....@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of yoyochi...@itri.org.tw > Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 2:56 PM > To: openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group > > Good sharing, Tristan! You just highlighted all good points we can do! > > We are more than lucky in Taiwan that we have had a cloud computing > association > and there are already hundreds of members there... our BEST target to promote > OpenStack! > > Maybe someday we can have a joint-meet up with you guys in Aus (not the BIG > one > in US... I mean more locally but still can cross country or continent^^) > > Cheers, > > Yoyo Chiang > > Strategy & Business Division > CCMA / ITRI > Tel : +886-3-591-4561 > Fax : +886-3-583-8246 > Mobile : +886-988-580-206 > Email : yoyochi...@itri.org.tw > > > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang=itri.org...@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang=itri.org...@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Tristan Goode > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:27 PM > To: 'Christian Berendt'; openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group > > Hi Christian, > > Congratulations and welcome! > > We started an Australian group in November (aosug.openstack.org.au), we have > 115 members and we've had 2 successful meetups so far in 2 cities with 2 more > planned for March. Here are some things we've done to get people along to your > first meetups... > > 1. Get vendors along. By various methods we got people from Dell, Citrix, > Rackspace, F5, Cisco and others coming along and giving talks about their > company > involvement. Go through the list at http://openstack.org/community/companies/ > and > contact who you can in your area. > 2. Write to the Heads of Schools of the University IT faculties and invite > them and > their school along. We had a great attendance from many universities, lots of > folks > doing PhDs and some with them already, all were really excited by OpenStack > and > many are hands on. > 3. A bar tab. If you can stretch for it, good, if not, this is where your > vendors may be > able to help. Free beer is always attractive. :-) 4. Look for local > sysops/sysadmin/network ops email lists or online forums and promote your > events > there to get folks along. > > Meetup.com has worked well for us, but it has a limitation that's annoying. > It's > disappointing that they make you tie the group to a city, as we have a sparse > population in Australia and to keep the community from fragmenting into > cities at this > early stage we wanted just a single group to cover the country, and as we're > doing > meetups in multiple locations we have to keep changing the location. We asked > them > to allow for us to have a national group but they will not. > > Cheers > Tristan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: > > openstack-community-bounces+tristan=aptira....@lists.launchpad.net > > [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+tristan=aptira.com@lists.launchpad > > .net] On Behalf Of Christian Berendt > > Sent: Saturday, 28 January 2012 10:18 AM > > To: openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > > Subject: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group > > > > Hallo together. > > > > We founded the first german user group a few minutes ago. > > > > We'll try meetup.com for organizing our meetups > > (http://www.meetup.com/openstack-germany) and will probably setup an > > additional mailling list for technical discussions in the next weeks. > > > > Our first informal meeting will take place during the CeBIT (takes > > place in Hannover/Germany). > > > > We plan hosting regular hackathons (in our HQ), providing german > > documentation/articles and regular informal meetings on several fairs in > > Germany. > > Anything else will show the future. > > > > Bye, Christian. > > > > -- > > Christian Berendt > > Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer > > Mail: bere...@b1-systems.de > > > > B1 Systems GmbH > > Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de > > GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537 > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > > Post to : openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > Post to : openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > Post to : openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community Post to : openstack-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
