Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
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
Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
Hallo together. Here are some things we've done to get people along to your first meetups... Tristan, thank you for the input. Is there some place in wiki.openstack.org where we can collect such information? I think it will be very helpful for other upcoming user groups. Meetup.com has worked well for us, but it has a limitation that's annoying. Any other suggestions for organizing tools? We'll try meetup.com for the moment, but maybe there is a better way. 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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
Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
Hello together. Our first informal meeting will take place during the CeBIT (takes place in Hannover/Germany). that's awesome. When is CeBIT? What other events do you plan to attend to? Stefano, the CeBIT will take place from 06.03.2012 - 10.03.2012 in Hannover/Germany. We've not yet planned the meetup in detail, we'll add it to the list if we have details about the location and the exact date. We have a list of events around the world where it would make sense to have some OpenStack presence http://etherpad.openstack.org/OpenStackEvents2012 Why maintaining an extra document in etherpad? Isn't it better to use the existing event listing on http://www.openstack.org/community/events/? Bye, Christian. -- Christian Berendt Linux / Unix Consultant Developer Tel.: +49-171-5542175 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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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
Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 10:40 +0100, Christian Berendt wrote: Why maintaining an extra document in etherpad? Isn't it better to use the existing event listing on http://www.openstack.org/community/events/? the list of events on openstack.org contains events that have already scheduled and known to have something related to OpenStack. The etherpad doc is more of an exploratory effort. It is there to help planning sponsorships, trips, call for papers etc. Does that make sense? /stef -- 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
Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
Fantastic! I wonder if it might not be better to rename it to the specific city where the great majority of your meetups will be? At the moment we have no specific city for meetups and will use events like the CeBIT, OpenRheinRuhr, FrOSCon or Chemnitzer LinuxTage for meetups. So I think for the moment is a general name the better choice. If there will popup more german user groups we can rename this one to a more specific name. 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
Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 00:17 +0100, Christian Berendt wrote: Our first informal meeting will take place during the CeBIT (takes place in Hannover/Germany). that's awesome. When is CeBIT? What other events do you plan to attend to? We have a list of events around the world where it would make sense to have some OpenStack presence http://etherpad.openstack.org/OpenStackEvents2012 Would you add CeBIT and the others you mentioned? I'm hoping to use that list to help OpenStack marketing folks decide which events to sponsor, where to send speakers and such things. Congratulations again, let us know if we can help. /stef -- 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
