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How to Create A Local Group for your City

If you didn't see your city on our list of groups, you should create your own Facebook group.
We like keeping things as local as possible, so please create groups only for cities, or even smaller areas. The whole point is that your people shouldn't be more than 15-20 minutes away from each other.

Please, do not create groups for a whole State/province/department/county/etc. as they will not be added to the list.

Now, to the fun part! It's easy, just follow these steps:

• Sign in to Facebook.
• Click the down arrow in the upper right corner of the screen, then choose "Create Group" from the options.

1. Set the group name as "Free Code Camp" + the name of your city.

• Avoid using slang terms such as "Philly" for "Philadelphia".
• If your city is not the biggest city that uses its name, also include the state or province. For example, the Free Code Camp group in Paris, France should be called "Free Code Camp Paris". The Free Code Camp group in Paris, Texas should be called "Free Code Camp Paris, Texas".
• If you are in North America, we suggest you add the initials of your state/province here.

2. Set your group to public.

3. You'll need to add at least one person in order to create the group. Why not add Justin!? Furthermore, if you make him an admin, he'll be able to assist you in managing your members and events.

4. Choose the graduation cap icon to indicate that this group is related to education.

5. Click the "..." menu, then click "Edit group settings" in the dropdown menu.

6. Set the group's privacy setting to public.

7. Set your group's membership approval to where any member can add or approve members

8. Click the "Customize Address" button.

9. Enter "free.code.camp.yourcitysname" with each word separated by periods. Example: free.code.camp.london
   (Not "your.london" or "your.city.london"!)

10. Please feel free to personalize your local group's description, but be sure to include a link to Free Code Camp: http://www.freecodecamp.com. It makes it much easier for possible new members to find you if you mention the country your city is in (or its state/province if in North America).

Note: in this image, we also use "Testland" as an EXAMPLE, but you should use the name of your city instead.

11. Click the "Upload a photo button. To start out, you'll probably just want to use Free Code Camp's banner (download it here), or a scenic shot of your city. Later you can update this with a picture from one of your city's Free Code Camp events.

12. And finally, private-message Justin (@hallaathrad on Gitter) with a link to your city's group page. He'll include it in the list.

Additional tips:

• Join our Local Leaders Facebook group, where we share ideas about involving campers in your city.
• Read this article and see if you can set up your groups's first Coffee and Code session.
• Some ideas on getting more people involved with your group.