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## 2. Co-organizers

You should aim to have 2-3 co-organizers. This will help you share the workload and ensure that you can always attend the meetup.
You should aim to have 2-3 co-organizers. This will help you share the workload and ensure that at least some of you can always attend the meetup.

## 2. Audience

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The easiest format is to have each meetup hosted by a different sponsor company. The sponsor should take care of providing the venue, food and drinks as well as ideally one technical speaker.

The events should take place in the evening on weekdays, Fridays are best avoided since attendees may have other plans then. 18:00 is a good time to start the event. Some peopel are often a bit late, so you should aim to start the talks at 18:15.
The events should take place in the evening on weekdays, Fridays are best avoided since attendees may have other plans then. 18:00 is a good time to start the event. Some people are often a bit late, so you should aim to start the talks at 18:15.

You should aim to have 1-3 talks, each lasting 20-25 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions. Let the speakers know about this in advance and remind them before the talk starts. It is worth having a longer break in betweeb some talks if you have more than 2 and to leave time for socializing afterwards.
You should aim to have 1-3 talks, each lasting 20-25 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions. Let the speakers know about this in advance and remind them before the talk starts. It is worth having a longer break in between some talks if you have more than 2 and to leave time for socializing afterwards.

## 4. Process

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Once a sponsor is known, propose dates to them. Try to pick dates on which at least 2 of the organizers are available, so that someone can always attend the event to MC.

Once a date is set, reach out to potential speakers with the specific date. If a speaker isn't availalbe on that, you can reach out to them again in the future. Once at least 1-2 speakers are confirmed, you can publish the event.
Once a date is set, reach out to potential speakers with the specific date. If a speaker isn't available on that, you can reach out to them again in the future. Once at least 1-2 speakers are confirmed, you can publish the event.

Note that for free events you're likely to get a third no shows, so to ensure you fill all the seats overbook by 50%.

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