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From YouTube: How to plan a meetup with GitLab
Description
Check out this casual chat: meta-meetup: a meetup about meetups (https://www.meetup.com/gitlab-virtual-meetups/). John Coghlan, from GitLab's Community Relations team, will be on-hand to explain how our meetups program works, show you how to get started planning your first event, and answer your questions about becoming a community leader.
A
B
I
started
kind
of
getting
involved
in
tech
and
startup
committees
in
2012
and
since
then
I've
been
active
in
a
number
of
different
meetup
groups
and
over
the
last
three
years
I've
been
organizing
the
gitlab
meetups
program
and
that
program
really
works
with
local
organizers.
They
can
be
get
lab.
Community
members
get
lab
team
members,
sometimes
get
lab
customers
and
helping
them
organize
groups,
and
then,
over
the
last
year
I've
also
been
organizing.
B
But
since
it's
a
small
crowd,
you
know
I'm
happy
to
really
kind
of
focus
on
people's
questions
and
that
way
we
can
be
really
efficient
with
people's
time.
So
if
anybody
has,
I
guess
one
thing
that
would
be
helpful
to
me.
Actually,
since
it's
like
a
smaller
crowd,
would
maybe
be
if
everybody
could
just
go
around
and
do
a
quick
introduction
to
kind
of
who
they
are
and
what
brought
them
here
today,
and
so
sues
was
first
here.
C
We've
got
a
weekly
coding
session
as
well.
We
invite
guest
speakers
on
to
demystify
roles
in
tech,
so
not
necessarily
development
roles,
other
things
as
well
so
management
products,
things
like
that
data
and
what's
brought
me
here-
is
I'm
really
interested
to
know
about
what
it's
like
to
work
with
a
company
on
delivering
meetups,
because
that
is
not
something
we
have
tried
before
so,
like
I
said,
we've
brought
speakers
in,
but
we
haven't
actually
partnered
with
any
company,
so
I'm
quite
interested
to
hear
about
how
you
do
that
at
get
lab
really.
B
Very
cool,
thank
you
for
sharing
that
we
have
a
event
series
that
jamie
started
called
beyond
code
and
it
seems
like
it's
similar
in
some
ways,
although
not
as
extensive
yet,
but
it's
focused
on
highlighting
different
ways
that
you
know
people
can
contribute
to
gitlab
beyond
code.
So
you
know
kind
of
in
tech,
but
not
necessarily
development
rules.
So
it
seems
like
there's
some
synergy.
There.
D
D
So
I'm
just
looking
you
know
and
we
we
really
try
to
protect
those
repos.
So
you
know
it
doesn't
matter
which
git
it
is,
but
you
know
that's
why
I'm
here
just
trying
to
understand
what
the
bigger
group
looks
like
and
you
know-
are
there
opportunities
to
work
with
folks
to
you
know,
share
the
message
or
work
collaboratively
collaboratively
together.
So.
D
We're
looking
for,
like
secrets,
source
code
leakage,
you
know
supply
chain
attacks,
right
code,
tampering
that
sort
of
stuff,
so
we're
helping
people
look
farther
up.
The
software
development
life
cycle
there's
been
sas
and
das
solutions
for
a
long
time
and
they
do
a
really
good
job,
we're
not
in
that
space.
D
E
Yeah
hi,
I
am
the
devereaux
manager
at
what
used
to
be
called
redis
labs
and
it's
now
just
redis.
So
we
have
an
open
source
database,
product
and
the
commercial
product,
and
I
try
and
work
with
community
around
that,
mostly
in
discord,
but
also
through
conference
speaking,
and
we
tried
like
city-based
meetups,
where
it
was
our
meetup
and
then
we've
kind
of
tried
guesting
at
other
people's
meetups.
E
So
I
guess
I
sort
of
I'm
looking
at
the
opposite
perspective.
To
sues
is
like
how
do
I
as
representing
a
company's
sort
of
help
somebody's
meet
up
without
it
being
seen
to
be
this
like
horrific
marketing
takeover
shill
thing,
which
I
don't
want
it
to
be,
and
it
shouldn't
have
to
be,
and
I'm
in
nottingham.
F
To
share
with
us
hey
sorry:
well
I'm
a
software
developer
and
I
was
in
a
previous
meet
up
captain
of
gitlab
meetup
in
mexico
a
couple
years
ago,
I'm
just
a
software
developer,
interesting
on
all
related
with
good
love.
You
know
continuous
integration
stuff
like
that.
Well,
I'm
here
just
to
learn
about
technology.
F
F
F
B
B
You
know
with
like
an
overview
of
how
our
program
operates
and
then,
if
we,
you
know
it's,
it
seems
like
there's
a
fair
bit
of
knowledge.
Already
around
kind
of
you
know
what
a
meetup
is
and
getting
you
know
a
group
started
and
all
that,
so
I
think
I'll
skip
some
of
that
and
just
talk
through
the
elements
of
gitlab's
program.
B
We
provide
financial
support
for
the
groups,
so
we'll
cover
the
cost
of
the
meetup.com
subscription
and
we'll
also
provide
financial
support
when
in-person
events
are
possible
to
cover
the
cost
of
food
and
drink
and
send
swag,
and
then
we'll
work
with
organizers
to
connect
people
with
speakers
and
hosts,
but
we're
not
prescriptive
in
the
types
of
content
that
the
groups
cover.
So
we
think
of
things
like,
as
you
know,
kind
of
devops,
broadly
or
really
like
the
topics
that
we're
able
to
cover.
But
we,
you
know,
don't
require
the
material
to
be
about
gitlab
itself.
B
In
fact,
one
of
our
more
active
groups
lately
has
been,
I
think
it's
called
devops
and
chill
or
something
like
that
and
we've
been.
You
know,
active
in
supporting
that
group
and
organizing
events
throughout
the
summer,
and
you
know
in
general
they're
just
folks
that
are
you
know
interested
in
devops
that
get
together
and
talk
about
kind
of
latest
trends.
B
So
you
know
I
think
that
structure
has
worked
well
for
us.
If,
I'm
being
totally
honest,
you
know
during
the
pandemic,
it's
been
really
hard
to
organize.
To
find
organizers
who
are,
you
know,
have
the
energy
to
organize
virtual
events.
I
think
in
the
beginning
of
the
pandemic,
everyone
was
pretty
excited
about
the
accessibility
of
those
events
and
the
ability
to
recruit
speakers
from
a
global
audience
and
pull
a
global
audience
into
your
events.
B
B
Support
systems
in
place
for
speakers,
so
if
people
want
to
be
a
speaker
at
a
meetup,
we
have
a
team
of
developer.
You
know
evangelists,
like
science
team,
that's
developer
relations,
but
just
a
slightly
different
title
and
our
team
will
work
with
those
speakers
to
help
ensure
that
the
technical
details
of
their
talks
are
accurate.
If
they're,
you
know
referring
to
gitlab
or
topics
that
we're
familiar
with,
will
work
to
help.
You
know
improve
the
kind
of
slide
design
based
on
our
team's
experience.
B
You
know,
presenting
at
conferences
and
things
and
we'll
also
help
them
work
on
the
delivery
of
their
talks,
and
the
idea
is
to
you
know,
just
kind
of
get
those
people
prepared
so
that
they're
able
to
make
a
great
impression
on
the
communities
that
they're
presenting
to.
We
also
have
things
like
get
lab
slide
templates
and
even
some,
you
know,
kind
of
prepared,
decks
and
demos
for
some
of
our.
B
You
know
like
more
intro
level
type
talks,
but
again
you
know
they're,
really
not
marketing
oriented,
they
tend
to
be
more
oriented
towards
helping
people
up
level
their
skills.
So
if
someone,
you
know,
is
a
new
developer
and
doesn't
know
what
continuous
integration
is.
We
have
like
a
talk
and
a
demo
that
will
help
people
build.
You
know
their
first
pipeline
in
about
40
minutes
and
leave.
B
B
B
C
Yeah,
I
don't
have
any
immediate
needs
that
I
can
think
of,
but
I'm
quite
interested
to
know
like
how
would
we
join
the
program?
Do
we
do?
We
have
to
join
to
to
engage
with
it?
You
know
what
sort
of
commitment
is
there
on
both
sides
and
how
do
you
decide
like
who
you
want
to
join,
because,
presumably
you
wouldn't
take
everybody
who
comes
along
right,
because
you
don't
have
unlimited
amounts
of
money
and
stuff.
B
Yeah
yeah,
I
think
you
know
what
we
look
for
is
alignment
around
topic
and
I
think
you
know
jamie.
Maybe
it's
a
good
time
for
us
to
review.
You
know
some
of
this
and
make
sure
that
it's
up
to
date,
but
I
think
alignment
around
topic
is
important.
So
typically
we
tend
to
accept
like
devops
related
groups,
so
that's
kind
of
one
of
the
criteria.
We
also
look
for
groups
that
are
led
by
organizers
that
align
with
gitlab's
values.
B
So
we
have
a
set
of
values,
the
credit
values
it
stands
for.
Collaboration,
results,
efficiency,
diversity,
inclusion
belonging,
iteration
and
transparency,
and
so
we
look
for
people
that
are
gonna.
You
know,
share
those
values
and
in
the
context
of
meetups
I
think
the
one
that
stands
out
the
most
is
diversity,
inclusion
and
belonging
and
making
sure
that
you
know
groups
have
a
code
of
conduct
in
place
and
are
promoting
diverse
voices
and
ensuring
that
everyone
can
participate.
B
B
Take
you
to
a
gitlab
project
where
you
can
open
an
issue
and
you'll
fill
out
the
details
for
your
group
and
then
jamie
will
do
a
review
and
if
there's
any
question
you
know
probably
escalate
that
and
then
from
there
you
know
we'll
provide
a
a
key.
It's
a
basically
a
unique
url
to
add
your
group
to
ourmeetup.com
pro
network.
B
You
know
we
ask
that
organizers
host
at
least
four
meetups
per
year
in
order
to
maintain
their
membership
in
that
group.
Although
we've
gotten
a
bit
lacks
on
that,
because
we
know
that
you
know
people
are
really
facing
some
tough
times
right
now
and
then
you
know
we'll
do
a
regular
review
to
make
sure
that
people
are
following
the
code
of
conduct
and
things
like
that.
D
I
have
a
question
it
looks
like
I
got
to
you
guys
because
I
signed
up
for
the
bay
area
get
lab
meetup
group,
so
you
guys
maybe
heard
about
me
that
way.
But
are
you
guys
looking
for
more
groups,
or
I
mean
I
don't
I'm
not
sure
that
it
makes
sense
for
me
to
try
to
start
something
new
when
there's
one
here,
you
know.
B
Exactly
yeah,
so
I
think
we're
not
looking
for
more
groups
per
se.
What
we're
looking
for
is
more
active
groups,
and
so,
if
your
geography,
if
there's
an
existing
group
in
your
area
and
that
could
be
an
existing
git
lab
group
or
an
existing
existing
devops
group-
that's
gone,
you
know
become
inactive
for
whatever
reason,
if
it's
a
gitlab
group,
that's
part
of
our
network,
we'd
love
to
help
you,
you
know,
take
a
leadership
role
in
that
group
and
become
an
organizer,
and
then
you
know
from
there.
B
We
can
help
you
with
kind
of
all
of
that
support
that
I
mentioned
earlier,
which
you
know
could
be
recreating
the
group
description
and
coming
up
with
some
new
graphics
to
give
the
group
a
fresh
look,
and
then
you
know
helping
you
with
the
communication
to
the
community
that
you're
stepping
in
as
the
organizer
for
that
group
and
then
from
there
you
know,
planning.
You
know
some
events.
Normally
we
encourage
people
to
start
with.
You
know
about
three
events.
B
If
you
could
have
four
events
lined
up,
you
know
that
would
cover
you
for
a
whole
year.
If
you
did
meet
ups
on
a
quarterly
basis,
but
having
like
just
that
little
cushion
to
say,
okay,
we're
gonna,
do
these
three
events
and
then
that
can
help
you
get
some
momentum
that
would
that's
kind
of
what
that
process
would
look
like.
Obviously,
for
us,
you
know,
bay
area
is
an
a
location
that
we'd
love
to
see.
You
know
get
back
up
and
running,
and
so
I
think
we'd
be.
B
You
know
in
that
case,
like
really
willing
to
help
connect
you
with
members
of
our
community
or
even
get
let
team
members
to
go,
speak
at
your
events
and
and
help
you
build
out
that
calendar.
So
I
think,
for
you
know
those
kind
of
groups
that
are
in
areas
where
there's
high
developer
intensity.
I
think
we'd,
be
you
know,
really
keen
to
work
with
you
to
make
sure
that
the
group
is
successful
once
we
reboot
it.
D
F
Cool
you
answer
my
questions,
I'm
from
a
community,
and
here
we
there's
not
any
kind
of
meet
up
right
now
right,
you
know,
and
my
question
maybe
is
what
what
are
the
steps
to
start
with
gidlab
community
or
those
kind
of
regularity
meetups?
Here
I
don't
know
if
you
have,
for
example,
like
predefined
topics
to
start.
B
Yeah
great
question:
you
know,
I
think,
there's
like
a
few
steps
to
the
process
of
starting
a
meetup
group.
One
is
like
kind
of
defining
your
personal
goal
and
what
you
want
to
get
out
of
it,
because,
as
the
organizer,
you
need
to
be
able
to
stay
motivated
to
keep
those
groups.
You
know
whatever
group
you're
leading
organized
so
for
some
people,
it's
you
know,
building
up
community
for
some
people.
It's
knowledge
sharing
for
some
people,
they're
looking
to
kind
of
build
out
their
resume
and
expand
their
skill
set.
B
B
Bill's
at
you
know,
and
other
people
are
at
which
is
okay,
I'm
interested
in
getting
involved
with
this
community.
I
want
to
start,
you
know,
leading
a
group,
but
you
know
first,
let
me
see,
I
think
my
recommendation
would
be
first.
Why
don't
you
see
if
there's
an
existing
group
already
in
that
you
know
in
your
area?
That's
discussing
that
topic
that
you're
really
passionate
about
the
reason.
Why
is
you
know?
B
Migrating
people
from
one
group
to
a
new
group
you
know
is
going
to
create
a
lot
of
work
when
you
could
just
approach
the
organizers
of
that
you
know
dormant
group
or
even
if
it's
active,
but
not
as
active
as
you
think
it
could
be.
You
know
I
think
most
organizers
would
always
be
happy
to
have
extra
help
in
planning
their
meetups
and
that's
actually.
B
Yeah-
and
you
know
if
there
is
no
group
in
your
area-
that's
discussing
devops
or
git
lab,
and
you
think
that
it's
you
know
a
new
group
is
the
right
decision.
Then
you'll
start
the
new
group
and
then
from
there
it's
about
kind
of
you
know
creating
a
really
great
description,
page
with
a
cool
like
kind
of
header
image
that
catches
people's
attention.
B
You
know,
I
think
that
adding
the
code
of
conduct
is
an
important
step.
You
know
you
can
either
take
get
labs.
Even
if
it's
not
a
git
lab
related
group.
You
know
our
contact.
Our
code
of
conduct
is
free
for
anyone
to
use,
or
you
can
search
google
to
find
one.
That
kind
of
better
covers
the
things
that
you
think
are
important.
I'm
sure,
ladies
who
code
has
a
great
code
of
conduct
that
you
know
might
be
something
other
people
want
to
use.
You
know
from
there.
B
The
next
step
is
that
regular
cadence,
so
coming
up
with
a
regular
cadence
of
both
events
and
in
lieu
of
events,
just
maintaining
communication
and
letting
people
know
you
know
what's
going
on
when
you
know,
are
you
having
trouble
finding
a
speaker
and
that's
why
you
haven't
planned
an
event
in
a
while,
because
maybe
that
will
inspire
members
of
your
community
to
you,
know
kind
of
step
up
and
say:
hey.
I
have
a
talk.
B
I've
been
wanting
to
do
I'm
happy
to
help
out
so
maintaining
that
regular
cadence
of
both
events
and
communication.
You
know,
I
think
the
other
thing
I
encourage
people
to
do
is
not
let
having
a
speaker
be
a
blocker.
You
know,
I
think
the
format
today
is
kind
of
loose
most.
You
know,
meetups
fun.
People
think
need
to
follow
a
speaker
followed
by
conversation
format.
But,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
we
have
a
devops
and
chill
group.
That's
just
been
getting
together
and
they
have.
B
B
B
You
know
group
that
you're
envisioning
and
then
from
there
jamie,
and
I
can
work
with
you
to
help
get
the
meetup
key
and
the
digital
assets
and
refine
the
description
and
really
make
the
group
pop
and
then
also
line
up.
You
know
those
first
few
events
so
that
when
you
announce
the
group,
they
know.
Okay,
if
I'm
you
know
investing
my
time
in
here.
I
know
that
there'll
at
least
be
three
events
over
the
next
six
months
that
I'm
going
to
be
able
to
participate
in.
G
Yeah
no
problem,
so
that's
it's
not
to
be
honest,
it's
not
devops!
It's
really
oriented
it's
just
coding,
people
from
different
sort
of
coding
backgrounds
and
on
the
last
one
we
had
we
did,
we've
done
it
was
like
escape
room,
but
to
kind
of
escape
you
had
to
write
some
code
and
that
was
really
fun
and
we
did
it
in
the
park.
We
sat
on
the
benches
so
yeah.
G
B
G
No
well,
I
guess
I
could
just
put
when
you
were
talking.
I
was
looking
at
my
description
of
the
group
and
I
realized
it's
not
it's.
It's
like
not
maybe
talking
to
like
different
people
from
different
walks
of
life,
so
I
might
need
help
to
like
kind
of
refine
that
and
make
that
more
inclusive.
I
don't
know
because
we
we
do
are
like
mostly
guys
in
the
group.
B
B
E
Yeah,
I
guess
so,
for
those
who
are
late.
I
I
work
for
the
company
that
is
now
the
company
and
product
redis.
So
we
have
this
weird
situation
of
a
very
large
open
source
product
and
then
paid
service,
so
not
entirely
unlike
gitlab,
and
I
come
from
the
devrel
team
and
I'm
kind
of
interested
in
how
we
sort
of
help
meetups
without
essentially
like
de-culturing
them.
If
you
like
or.
A
E
But
when
I've,
whenever
I've
mentioned
it
works
like
I'm
speaking
at
local,
meet
up
marketing
wants
to
get
hold
of
it
and
do
stuff,
and
I'm
like
no
not
like
that.
I'm
just
literally
speaking
at
the
local
meet
up
and
like
I
will
name
drop
something,
and
maybe
we
can
provide
pizza,
and
maybe
the
topic
is
nothing
to
do
with
that
product.
But.
B
E
B
E
B
So
I
think
that's
one
important
piece
we're
actually
working
on
our
as
our
team
on
a
certification
right
now
that's
going
to
be
available
to
anybody,
but
you
know
it
really
focused
on
our
team
members
so
that
they
can
get
certified
in
the
get
lab
community
and
understand
the
value
that
our
you
know.
Community
brings
to
the
company
how
the
community
fits
into
our
strategy.
B
The
you
know
how
our
programs
and
community
relations
programs
operate
and
just
help
people
level
up
their
knowledge,
so
that
it's
a
little
bit
more
clear,
especially
when
we're
on
boarding
people.
I
think
people
that
have
been
around
for
like
a
year
or
two
tend
to
start
to
understand
it,
but
I
think
the
certification,
we
hope,
will
help
people
get
up
to
speed
more
quickly.
So
that's
one
way
to
kind
of
you
know
like
fight
that
internally,
I
think
it
you
know
another
way
to
look
at.
It
would
be
like.
B
How
can
you
give
value
to
the
communities
that
you're
part
of
so
you
know
I
was
like
the
devrel
people
for
redis.
You
know
you
can
come
up
with.
You
know
some
really
great,
like
introductory
talks
that
are
gonna
bring
value
to
a
lot
of
people.
I
think
for
us
at
gitlab
that
tends
to
be
focused
on
like
get
and
get
workflows
and
ci,
and
so
we'll
focus.
A
lot
of
our
community
focused
talks
on
those
topics.
B
If
we're
going
to
a
conference
or
doing
a
webinar
or
something
like
that,
you
know
we'll
tend
to
get
a
little
bit
deeper
or
with
community
groups.
We
tend
to
focus
on
those
higher
level
talks
around
like
what
is
a
git
workflow,
and
you
know
what
is
a
branch
and
a
commit,
and
how
does
all
that
work
and
then
similar
with
ci?
B
B
The
other
way
that
we
kind
of
use
meetups
that
I
really
think
is
great,
is
like
promoting
community
speakers,
and
so
you
know
we
have
our
internal
kind
of
evangelist
team
and
they
do
things
like
write
blog
posts.
Go
do
conference,
talks
come
up
with
these
introductory
talks
and
do
them
at
meetups
speak
to
media,
but
then
we
also
have
jamie
and
our
evangelist
program.
B
I
think
that
really
brings
a
tremendous
amount
of
value
and
people
then
get
excited
because
they
see
okay,
I
could
go
and
do
a
talk
at
the
gitlab
meetup.
So
now
I'm
gonna
get
you
know
level
up
my
skills
so
that
I
can
reach
out
to
jamie
and
say
hey.
I
have
this
talk.
I've
been
wanting
to
do
with
it
at
a
you
know.
Can
we
work
on
that
together.
E
Yeah,
I
think
we've
sort
of
tried
some
of
these
things
as
well
and
we're
in
the
early
days.
So
we
started
like
a
twitch
thing
periodically
where
the
aim
is
it's
our
platform,
but
we
don't
really
speak
at
it.
So
we
pull
people
from
the
discord
community
or
something
and
then
we've
also,
like
you
say,
try
doing
more
generic
stuff.
So
for
us
it
will
be
talking
about
like
what
is
big.
E
E
Mix,
I
think
it's
it's
kind
of
early
days
and
we
have
this
community
of
there's
the
open
source
people
and
there's
people
that
pay
us
and
you
can
get
our
product
from
a
bunch
of
other
cloud
providers.
You
know
in
all
sorts
of
different
so
even
like
getting
those
people
to
realize
that
all
of
these
things
are
the
same.
Underlying
thing
like.
I
guess
you
do
with
the
get
protocol
and
the
git
process
is
a
thing
that
we
sort
of
need
to
do
to
build
a
wider
community.
E
I
think,
but
the
other
way
we've
been
doing
it
is
we
have
like
training
courses
for
the
product
and
we
invite
people
into
discord
for
that
and
they
stick
around.
We
used
to
have
like
products
per
sorry
forums
per
course
run
and
then,
at
the
end
of
your
six
week,
run
it
would
get
flushed
and
the
next
run
would
happen.
C
I
think
definitely
anything
that
can
help
you
level
up
in
your
career,
so
whether
it's
about
becoming
more
senior
or
just
you
know
doing
that
whole
t-shape
thing
so
becoming
more
broad
or
a
bit
deeper.
So,
like
simon,
said
all
of
that
good
stuff
things
that
you
might
come
across
in
your
interviews
is
always
good
insight
into
other
roles
that
you
might
want
to
go
into.
B
How
do
you
feel
about
things
like
co-promotion
of
events
where,
like
maybe
we
do
it?
You
know
as
an
example
like
we
would
have
an
event
where
it's
a
you
know,
team
member
and
then
one
of
the
members
of
your
ladies
who,
who
code
their
ladies
who
tech
group
you
know
like,
are
both
presenters
and
then
we
pro
you
know
both
create
meet
up.
You
know,
event
pages
and
we're
able
to
kind
of
cross
pollinate
our
communities.
That
way.
Have
you
done
things
like
that
before.
C
We
have
in
the
past,
especially
when
we've
done
the
physical
ones,
because
we
would
work
with
companies
to
have
meet
ups
at
their
premises,
so
people
would
lend
out
their
offices
to
us
and
then
we
would
go
there
and
have
our
event
there.
So
yeah
that
has
definitely
worked
quite
well.
What
you
do
find
is,
though,
that
you
tend
to
get
people
who
aren't
really
interested
in
being
part
of
the
community.
C
C
So
it's
a
bit
of
a
double-edged
sword,
but
I
think,
on
balance,
definitely
helps
to
have
that
kind
of
co-branding
yeah,
and
I
think
you
need
to
balance
that
as
well,
because
you
want
to
work
with
other
companies
like
how
does
that
work?
You
know
if
I'm
not
a
sort
of
a
get
like
get
lab
meet
up
and
I
might
want
to
work
with
other
companies.
B
C
So
that
was
for
people
who
were
just
really
struggling
through
all
the
various
lockdowns
that
we
had
and
all
the
isolation,
and
they
just
wanted
to
get
stuff
done,
but
they,
although
they
had
a
lot
of
time,
the
mental
health
was
suffering,
and
there
were
a
lot
of
people
like
that.
So
that's
formed
a
really
kind
of
tight-knit
group.
That
is
really
trust
each
other
and
they
know
to
come
back
at
the
same
time
every
week
and
you
know
they're
going
to
see
some
friendly
faces
and
they
can
share
openly.
C
I
think
it's
quite
hard,
especially
in
tech,
because
everybody's
got
different
needs,
so
you
want
to
offer
variety
and
therefore
you're
not
always
going
to
get
the
same
people
coming
back,
and
it
is
really
hard
to
know
what
to
offer
people,
because
when
you
ask
them,
they
don't
necessarily
tell
you
what
they
want,
but
yeah.
Definitely
the
series
has
worked
for
me,
especially
over
the
past
year,
a
bit
of
consistency,
especially
with
the
the
sunday.
G
We
we
started
a
little
bit
of
like
instant
messaging
group,
we
use
slack
and
then
we
kind
of
chat
there,
which
kind
of
works
in
between
like
the
meetups,
so
that
people
keep
talking
a
bit.
But
I
was
actually
interested
in
more
details.
Is
that
if
I'm
pronouncing
it
correctly
like,
if
you
could
mention
more
about
what
you
did
on
those
series,
because
that's
kind
of
good
inspiration,
I
think
if
I
could
like
copy
some
sort
of
thing
you
done.
G
C
C
There
was
a
lot
of
messaging
at
the
time
of.
Oh
you've
got
so
much
time
because
you
don't
have
to
get
on
the
train
and
commute
and
stuff
like
that.
But
I
knew
for
a
fact.
There
were
a
lot
of
people
and
it
affected
women
a
lot
I
mean
it
affected
men
and
women
and
all
kinds
of
people,
but
a
lot
of
women
are
caregivers
and
stuff
like
that,
and
a
lot
of
women
bear
the
child
care.
So
for
them
it
wasn't
true
that
they
had
a
lot
more
time.
C
C
So
what
we
do
is
we
check
in
at
the
beginning
and
we're
all
on
zoom
and
then
anyone
who
wants
to
share
what
they're
working
on
can
share
and
it
doesn't
have
to
be
technical.
So
we've
got
everybody
from
like
they're
trying
to
brush
up
their
skills
or
they're
preparing
for
an
interview,
or
they
need
to
do
some
cleaning
or
just
anything.
They
want
to
get
done
and
there's
no
judgement.
C
So
one
good
example
of
somebody
who
wanted
to
make
an
app
for
about
five
years.
She
wanted
to
make
an
app
where
you
could.
Log
like
you,
drunk
water
or
you've,
gone
for
a
walk
like
it
was
called
good
behavior.
You
wanted
to
reward
yourself
for
doing
this
stuff
and
she
hadn't
done
this
app
and
then
she
started
coming
in
january.
Every
week
and
she's
got
a
trello
board
for
everything,
and
you
can
see
very
clearly
the
progress
she's
made
since
january.
C
G
C
C
But
people
are
very
comfortable
now
because
it's
just
so
like
friendly
and
it's
the
same
faces
all
the
time
so
yeah
simon.
Thank
you
for
for
checking
that
out.
Sorry
for
I'm
getting
confused
now
for
posting.
My
links
in
the
in
the
chat
there
so
check
out
that
blog,
it's
outlined
the
whole
methodology,
but
I
also
did
a
couple
of
conference
talks
that
kind
of
describes
it
as
well.
C
If
that,
if
you
prefer
to
watch
a
video
and
for
the
roles,
what
I
did
there
was,
I
knew
that
there's
kind
of
a
lot
of
gatekeeping
in
tech.
I
think
and
people
think
that
if
you're
not
a
developer,
then
you're
not
really
in
tech,
but
there's
a
lot
of
roles
in
tech
that
are
still
very
techy,
but
not
necessarily
coding,
and
then
there
are
other
roles
in
tech
that
are
not
really
techy
but
they're
still
in
tech.
C
So
we
wanted
to
kind
of
show
people
what
they
could
do
in
tech
if
they
are
coders
or
if
they're,
not
coders
or
if
they
don't
want
to
do
coding
anymore
and
stuff
like
they
want
to
change,
but
also
how
to
get
into
those
roles.
So
we
called
it
get
into
all
my
series
started
with
get.
I
don't
know
why
I
think
it
started
to
get
into
and
then
it
was
like.
C
So
somebody
had
done
a
side
gig
of
he
does
a
lot
of
games.
He
makes
a
lot
of
little
games,
so
one
of
his
latest
games
was
the
game.
You
can
only
play
once
so
you
have
to
play
it
really
well
to
get
on
the
leaderboard
and
then
you'd
never
have
another
chance
again.
That
was
a
really
good
one,
so
those
ones
are
all
on
youtube
as
well.
So
if
you
go
to
sues.debs
youtube,
you
can
check
those
out
so
yeah.
C
It
was
all
about
just
sort
of
the
most
common
things
that
people
kind
of
say:
I'd
really
love
to
get
into.
But
I
don't
know
how
so
we
just
picked
off
eight
of
them
for
the
first
series
and
we
had
data
engineering
data
analysis
and
then
this
series
we've
had
product
design,
something
to
do
with
data.
We
want
to
get
a
technical
writer
on
as
well
so
yeah.
It's
just
all
those
kind
of
roles
that
people
might
not
necessarily
know
about.
So
you
probably
could
find
some
that
are
related
to
devops.
C
For
sure
there
are
probably
loads.
You
could
do
around
devops,
but
I
think
simon's
dropped
the
link
to
get
into
as
well
or
maybe
not
I'll
drop
that
in
there
but
yeah.
So
I
outlined
the
methodology
for
how
I
chose
the
speakers
and
the
format
and
stuff.
So
those
get
into
were
really
like
a
fireside
chat,
because
I
decided
it
would
be
easier
to
do
that
than
to
get
somebody
to
prepare
a
whole
talk.
C
It
was
just.
It
was
just
easier
to
get
the
speakers
on
board.
If
I
say
to
them,
look
you
don't
have
to
prepare
anything
just
turn
up.
When
I
tell
you
to
turn
up
and
we'll
just
sit
and
have
a
chat,
it
was
a
lot
easier.
So
that
worked
quite
well
and
then
so
I
very
much
kind
of
shaped
how
I
wanted
it
to
be.
So
I
made
sure
I
curated
the
questions
and
it's
mostly
questions
from
me
and
then
we
do
ask
the
audience
to
submit
questions
as
well.
C
But
what
I
find
is
a
lot
of
people
come
on
and
then
they
ask
stuff
like
how
do
you
have
imposter
syndrome?
It's
like.
I
really
want
to
have
a
women
in
tech
event
where
nobody
mentions
imposter
syndrome.
Can
we
just
like
banish
that
term
completely,
please
because
it
actually
doesn't
exist?
If
you
want
to
talk
to
me
about
that
afterwards,
I'll
tell
you
why
nexus,
but
yeah
a
lot
of
people
say:
do
you
have
imposter
syndrome
which
okay
is
valid,
but
I
don't
want
to
be
asking
every
single
interviewee
about
that.
C
C
So
let's
kind
of
stop
talking
about
this
whole
kind
of
woman
thing
in
this
imposter
thing.
So
that's
the
way
I
personally
do
it
and
yeah
simon
has
very
kindly
dropped
the
links,
thanks
for
being
my
pa
there,
simon,
but
yeah,
happy
to
chat
to
you
about
that,
some
more.
If
you
want
or
anything
else,
you
want
to
hear
about.
B
C
There
are,
I
just
wanted
to
make
a
suggestion.
There
are
a
lot
of
resources
online.
I
know
you
said
you
helped
speakers
out,
but
there's
a
lot
of
resources
online
for
folks
that
want
to
get
into
speaking
as
well.
So
I've
been
heavily
involved
in
global
diversity
cfp
day.
I
don't
know
if
any
of
you
have
heard
of
it,
but
the
aim
of
it
is
to
get
underrepresented.
C
C
You
can
find
the
videos
of
those
talks
on
the
youtube
channel
that
simon
dropped
there,
but
yeah
there's
there's
loads
of
resources
for
people
who
aren't
sure
if
they
can
do
it,
because
I
think
there
are
loads
of
people
who
know
stuff.
Who
would
be
great
speakers
at
your
meet
up,
but
they
just
don't
have
the
confidence.
C
So
if
you
can
arm
yourself
with
some
resources
to
help
them,
it
probably
comes
better
from
you,
because
you're
local,
rather
than
oh,
let's
go
to
gitlab
and
speak
to
like
the
big
people
up
there
and
it's
a
little
bit
scary.
So
if
somebody
local
can
kind
of
coach
them
through
it,
I
think
that
really
helps.
B
All
right:
well
thanks
everyone
for
coming
and
spending
time
with
us
today.
Thank
you
all
for
your
contributions.
I
love
these
types
of
things
that
are
more
conversational
and
less
kind
of
traditional
presentation
and
then
q.
A
so
appreciate
everybody's.
You
know
willingness
to
engage
and
share
their
own
experiences.