This document provides tips on how to grow an amazing community. It discusses establishing a board, finding venues and food sponsors close to the community, having regular monthly meetups planned several months in advance, partnering with conferences for promotions, using multiple communication channels, giving out promotional items, running speaker training and educational programs, and continuing to aim high and have fun as the community grows. The pandemic has led the community discussed to stop hosting online events and focus on in-person meetups once it is safe to do so again.

1. How to grow an amazing community
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2. All of us want to succeed in life
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3. What determines your success?
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• Your ability to speak
• Your ability to write
• The quality of your ideas
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4. The role of communities
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About this talk

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Scrum Master
JUG Founder & Leader
Career & Mindset Coach
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8. Dilemmas on starting
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The Board
• You can’t do it alone
• People you trust to avoid surprises
• Community’s eager to help, ask for
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10. The Speakers
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The Venues
• Close to your community’s location
• Win-win : venue + food = advertisement
• Stay independent, but keep a close
relationship with one company
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The Food
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• Fixed cadence (e.g. once a month)
• Fixed day(s)
• Announce next meetup at the end of the current one
• Plan 3 months ahead
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The Meetups

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The Partners
• more growth = more partnerships
• mainly from conferences - win -win
• in(free tickets) => out(promote event)
• IntelliJ, DevoXX, JCON
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The Communication Channels
• Decide on a platform
• Social media to spread the word
• Ask for feedback
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The SWAG
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18. The Programmes
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• Speaker Incubator
• Devoxx4kids
• uJCP

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Speaker Incubator
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Devoxx4kids
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Devoxx4kids
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Devoxx4kids
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uJCP
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After Adopt-a-JSR Day

25. The Pandemic
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• Conscious decision not to host any online
events
• Our strength lies on physical meet-ups
• Plethora of good content online
• SIP partially, Devoxx4kids
• Back to normal?

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The extra sauce
• Aim high
• Be open to new ideas
• You grow along with your community
• Have fun!
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James Gosling

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Uncle Bob
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Help others succeed in life
Write
Speak
Ideas
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30. Start!
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