Hello - I started OpenLate at our company because I couldn't find a place to code at night. It grew into a speaker series with over 2700 members. So far in 2015, about 10% of technical OpenDNS hires have been sourced through OpenLate.
I had to leave OpenDNS and OpenLate as I transitioned to working on our company full-time because it was accepted to a cool little fellowship program. However, this talk covers all the lessons that we learned about running a tech speaker series.
Of note, here is the Run Book for the meetup - it includes everything we used to run the event, including how to setup and what emails to send members.
https://opendns.app.box.com/OpenLateMeetupRunbook
If you have any questions about running a meetup, I'm happy to answer them!
I had to leave OpenDNS and OpenLate as I transitioned to working on our company full-time because it was accepted to a cool little fellowship program. However, this talk covers all the lessons that we learned about running a tech speaker series.
Of note, here is the Run Book for the meetup - it includes everything we used to run the event, including how to setup and what emails to send members. https://opendns.app.box.com/OpenLateMeetupRunbook
If you have any questions about running a meetup, I'm happy to answer them!