Anyone can contribute and help organize the 757rb group. This is our group and helping is easy. Just take the following steps.
organizing repo. This will make sure you get emails on all threads.Like JavaScript? Our sister group @NorfolkJS uses Github to organize the group too!
Everything here is tracked via Github issues. We also use issue labels to help filter topics. The general idea is to start an issue and talk about it.
Try to make the title follow a YEAR-MONTH-DAY Topic naming convention if it for a specific meetup date. All communications can be recorded in this issue too both before and after the meetup. We can let each other know who is updating the copy, what notes we had about the meetup and follow-up action items.
Anything goes here. The group is constantly changing and these threads are a great way to talk about that change.
Whenever one of our own goes out of town and speaks, let's keep notes about it in these issue types. We can talk about our own dev swag, etc.
A scratch pad of people we meet and ideas for future speakers to come and talk to us.
This is a list of what we typically do for each meetup. If you do not have access to the @757rb twitter account, just open up an issue and we will get you the login information.
When you change copy on the meetup.com site, make sure to double check that it flows well on the 757rb.org jekyll site. Usually the rule of thumb is to keep the first paragraph lean, to the point, and devoid of HTML markup.