Summary

Our meetup program facilitates the growth of the global community of green software practitioners.

Short description

We cover for the costs of running a meetup on http://meetup.com and provide meetup organizations with support in the form of assets, materials, sourcing speakers, project management, anything to help reduce the burden of running a local user group and help the local meetup run successful events.

Details

• Lead: TBD

• PM: Adam Jackson / @adamj89 (GSF Staff)

• Website: https://www.meetup.com/pro/gsf/

• Governance: https://grnsft.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~612dd45e45cd76006a84071a/pages/1015850

• Repo: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/meetup

• Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/Green-Software-Foundation/projects/20

• TOC:

  • It will improve culture by “connecting people together globally into communities”.

  • It will improve culture by “giving opportunities for speakers to get feedback on their talks and gain confidence in speaking”.

Contact

• Email: - meetup-organizers@greensoftware.foundation

• GitHub: The meetup discussions channel.

Getting Started

• Read the meetup documentation, it’s got lots of information in there regarding what the team does and how the meetups group functions.

• The best place to get started with the meetup project is to post in the meetup discussions forum, head over there and say Hi in the introductions thread, introduce yourself and express how you’d like to help.

• There are many ways to get involved from:

  • Creating, joining the organizing committee of a local green software meetup.

  • Facilitating meetup events, from being a host to finding a venue.

  • Being a speaker for a local meetup event.

  • Creating fun, engaging content for meetup events.

  • Moderating any communication channels for our meetup program.

OKRs

OKR1: Grow the global meetup community

• KR1.1: 10K users are members of GSF meetup groups by end of 2023

• KR1.2: 120 in-person events run by the end of 2023

• KR1.3: 0% of meetup groups are inactive every month

Full description

The GSF Meetup Community enables open source cooperation and involvement for all green software enthusiasts.  GSF aims to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for green software. The Meetup community is an excellent way of activating the base.

In October 2022, GSF released its new and upgraded Meetup Community, a playground for green software enthusiasts of any rank and order. Our goal is to consistently grown the network in different cities around the globe and is considerably increase membership in 2023.

Finding like-minded green software developers is extremely difficult. There is nowhere to turn to for interested individuals to learn more, get involved and get active without becoming a GSF member. This is particularly true for students or people wanting to venture into the green software space. Also, IT events are often in English, with local languages playing a subordinate role.

The GSF Meetup ecosystem has solved these issues by bringing together individuals interested in green software, enabling them to engage in local chapters and groups in their local language. 

It has also created a tool for GSF member organizations to get their employees involved, as well as a base for connecting with and hiring talent.

Roadmap 2023

What we expect this year: