Webpage

A website gives your meetup a permanent home that isn’t dependent on any social platform. It’s where potential attendees, speakers, and sponsors can find out what the meetup is about and how to get involved.

Minimum viable

At minimum, a meetup website needs:

• A short description of what the meetup is about
• A way for people to submit talk proposals
• Links to your social accounts and registration platform
• Your domain (see Name, Purpose, and Branding)

What to add over time

Once you have a few events behind you, a public archive becomes valuable. RubyMX keeps a record of all previous editions with links to the recordings. For a speaker considering submitting a talk, seeing past events is reassuring. For a company considering sponsorship, it shows the meetup is active and established.

Update the website as soon as new information is available: venue, speakers, registration link. Don’t wait until everything is confirmed. A partial update is better than an outdated page.

Technology

RubyMX uses Bridgetown, a Ruby-based static site generator. That choice fits because the community is Ruby-focused. Your technology choice doesn’t matter much at the start: a simple static site, a hosted platform, or even a well-maintained link-in-bio page can work. What matters is that it’s up to date and easy to find.