Global Remote Meetup Coordination
ETH Organisers are starting to experiment
Last year, at DevCon4, we hosted a get-together for Ethereum meetup organisers. Bringing a diverse set of minds together under one roof, all with common aspirations of growing the Ethereum space, was fabulous. We didn’t want that experience to end, and brought to life a community that connects ETH organisers from across the globe.
Since then this community has grown consistently. Our Telegram group is now home to almost 100 organisers from all over 💪 and so far we had three monthly calls, where we exchanged ideas and contemplated how we could coordinate global experiments as a collective.
In our last monthly call, we kicked-off one of those experiments. Here are the details…
Global Remote Ethereum Meetups
In a lean experiment we are trialling the coordination of remote meetups, in other words meetups where anyone from across the world can tune into remote presentations.
The idea here is twofold.
- To have an open-access, single-source list of remote events, where anyone can add an event or subscribe to an event — be it an individual or a whole meetup group.
- To have an open-access, single-source list of remote speakers, where anyone can add themselves to advertise they’d be interested in speaking remotely, meetups can then approach potential speakers to coordinate remote speakers for their local events — which again anyone else can tune into as well.
All these events will be free, open to anyone, and there is no participant limit.
An example
Protea is hosting a 2-part remote workshop on cryptoeconomic primitives (sign-up here) in March, and meetups like ETH Copenhagen will be tuning in locally to participate in these workshops. At the same time individuals from anywhere can also tune in. Questions during the workshops are facilitated by Sli.do.
How you can get involved
We are starting this lean :) This google spreadsheet coordinates a list of remote events and remote speakers. It is open for anyone to make additions, although there will be quality control 🕵️♀️ This is how you could get involved…
Are you hosting remote events?
→ Add your remote events to the list, to get more visibility. This way ETH organisers and individuals can see your remote event and get in touch, to coordinate an “opt in”.
Would you like to speak remotely?
→ Add yourself to the speaker list, and signal that you’d be happy for local meetup groups to approach you to coordinate a local meetup around your remote presentation. Once that is advertised on the event list, others can also “opt in”.
Would you like to tune in on remote presentations?
→ If you are looking to connect with more individuals in the space, check out the events list and see if anything interests you. Tune in to one of the events. Listen, engage and learn 👩🔬
If you have any questions or would like to chat about this, feel free to reach out to Wayne Van Niekerk (wayne@linumlabs.com)
A big thank you to Troels Plenge, James Zaki and Wayne Van Niekerk who have all been an integral part of growing the ETH organiser community. And of course to each and every ETH organiser!
