Introduction

Try to identify yourself in one of the following three scenarios:

• You work in tech, and there’s no meetup in your city.
• There is a meetup in your city, but it stopped running.
• You’ve been attending someone else’s meetup for years and you’re starting to think: I could do this.

If you can relate to at least one of the previous points, this handbook is for you. It covers picking a name, finding speakers, sponsors, and a venue, running the event itself, and what to do the day after. The knowledge comes from running RubyMX, a Ruby meetup in Guadalajara, Mexico that started with five people in a coworking space and has been running monthly ever since.

Before getting into the details, two pages worth reading first:

• Why Organizing a Meetup?: what a meetup actually gives to the community, to speakers, and to you as the organizer
• About Us: where this handbook comes from and who wrote it