Develop a "meetup in a box"

[pmoorman]

The big marketing plan calls for developing a "meetup in a box" to make it as easy as possible for everyone to organize local meetups. Think of it as a checklist or playbook of sorts, to make meetups run smoothly.

Since the bounty program is incredibly locally active (see also the discussions on localisation/regionalisation we've recently had), I suggest it's the right place to develop such work.

Since we have now run a few successful meetups, it might be a good time to compile this "meetup in a box" by the one's that have been organizing them.

• @Eknir (on Discord) hosted the first RChain European meetup in Amsterdam a month ago
• @David405 I belief hosted the first RChain Africa meetup in Nigeria recently (together with other RAMs, probably)
• @zsluedem is currently setting up a meetup in China

They seem like excellent people to produce this meetup in a box. I spoke with @zsluedem about it, and I invite any of you to improve / append this issue description to make it SMART and actionable.

Measure of completion: TBD by issue owners
Suggested budget: $3.000 (but really: TBD by issue owners)

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P.S. spinning this out from issue #750 and PM conversation with Will

P.P.S. I know @kitblake has experience hosting similar meetups also, and might be valuable to include!

[zsluedem]

China has set up the first meetup before #724. @wangjia184 is one of the presenters in the meetups. He made a very good technique slides although it's in Chinese.

@David405 @Eknir try to post the materials you use for the meetups and then we can sort out
something useful for meetups.

[zsluedem]

I think we can set up some basic topics about Rchain which we can present in the meetups and attract developers or contributors.

Some topics which some up in my mind is:

1. Rchain bounty program
2. Rholang Introduction
3. Rchain's Namespace
4. Reflective-Venture on the dapp development investment(I am not sure about it . Because Shahankhoshafian from discord has told me about that)

We can sort out our materials around these topics.

[David405]

@zsluedem every material for the meet-up will be posted as soon as the video is out, an issue will be created to review the meet-up.

@pmoorman I think we need to collate documents like this and others to serve as guides and then come up with a more elaborate standard for organizing an RChain local meetup.

Also, we have to define a "meetup" with respect to its content and audience e.g a technical meet-up will differ in its content and would require professionals and the elite as audience, a coding session would require developers as audience etc.

First, let's get a lot of documents we can use as guides for setting up a successful meet-up.

[nonnykul]

@pmoorman, I believe all meetup should be geared towards attaining the marketing plan, more research work should be done to attain a 'standard' for meetups.

Check #772 more of a start to drive this issue.

[zsluedem]

Also, @dckc has made good slides about Rchain bounty program for the Boulder Dev con #641 . This is very helpful material,too.

[azazime]

@David405 is right, we have to take into account the various types of audience in a meet up while trying to generate an algorithm for "meet up rewards"

[zsluedem]

@wangjia184 and I have translated the slides to English. See if anyone can give some advice.

We can still make it more general and easy to understand.

[casanwugo]

The big marketing plan has no doubtedly initiated a great development here. But let's not forget to mention all the Pros and Cons that goes with hosting meetups.

@David405 successfully hosted a meetup recently, but backstage, we know how much time, resources, and committment was put-in to bring it to standard. Therefore, i am of the opinion that every single area involved should be combed through thoroughly before implementing the "meetup in a box". Otherwise, it is a perfectly brilliant idea.

[pmoorman]

@zsluedem since you've been in the lead here, could you suggest a tentative budget (and reward distribution) for June?

cc @kitblake @AyAyRon-P

[nonnykul]

@zsluedem check this,material used during RChain Africa meetup.

[zsluedem]

We now have three materials presented. One is from Africa meetup , one is from @wangjia184 presentation in China and another one is from dckc presentation in Boulder.But we haven't sort out really something here.Sorry for no good outcome this month because I have been busy with other issues.Try to push more next month.
@pmoorman I suggest 300$ for June.

[zsluedem]

@David405 Your idea is good one . Let's move forward this issue to that next month.

@azazime Do you have any ideas how should we do with the different types of audience? In my opinion, we should gather both development materials and Rchain coop(community) materials. In some meetups, some people might present something not about Rchain but blockchains then we can make prepare some comparison material between Rchain and other blockchain.That would be a good material for us. I know some teams in Rchain is doing comparison with Cardano.

feel free to post your ideas and opinions. Glad to talk.

[azazime]

@zsluedem materials for meet-ups should be comprehensive enough to reach out to various interests amongst the audience

[AyAyRon-P]

The common denominator should of course be RChain. Glad you remembered the local meetup program @David405. In addition to that what are some marketing materials you need for this?

• Presentations - PowerPoint or Keynote?
• Demos
• Videos by Cryptovideos
• Whitepapers / Dev articles,
• Giveaway? Webcam covers / PC stickers?

Seems like there has been a tremendous amount of growth since that first local meetup program has been put together. As a graphic designer I know the importance of having a client/prospect have something tangible to walk away with. Would there be a benefit to creating a RChain Leave Behind? A type of catalog or brochure that has the whitepaper but also more of the documentation about the community and of course developer minded content too. Thoughts?

[David405]

@pmoorman @zsluedem I created a Local meetup guide, I believe it is a good start to update the current wiki

[zsluedem]

@David405 Oh~! I was writing something similar.But I only get the start. Yours is better than mine. Let's just take yours to add things into it!

[AyAyRon-P]

@David405 @zsluedem @nonnykul please add me on discord as a friend, I'm putting together a server to discuss the updated material and presentations need for you all.

Here is a link to the discord server I've created:
https://discord.gg/T4QnN3

[zsluedem]

Hey ,everyone here.

Make a small conclusion here about what we have done so far and what we should do next.

what we have now

Now we have a draft meetup wiki created by @David405 .

We have slide:

1. Getting Involved in the RChain Bounty Program
2. RChain Technical Analysis
3. Rchain Africa Meetup Notes

And some plain methematics slides from #822 by @golovach-ivan

• Formalisms: Formal language, Algebra, Calculi, Logic.v1
• CCS: LTS and Process Calcculi.v1
• Propositional Logic.v1
• Predicate Logic.v1
• Hennessy-Milner Logic without Recursion.v1
• Hennessy-Milner Logic with Recursion.v1

These slides are really difficult to understand for normal developers. I think they are better for some researchers and professors possibly.

As @AyAyRon-P said, we may need some videos for the meetup. I don't see any particularly valuable videos which can be presented in a meetup.
I think putting What is RChain all about? in the start of the meetup would be a good way to cheer everyone up.

Does anyone have complements to what we have ?Feel free to comment.

What we have to do next

1. The meetup guide is really a draft one . We have to discuss more about it . I will push on this recently. Maybe we need the edit access @David405 .

2. I don't think the slides can cover all the fields about Rchain. We may need some materials about Reflective Venture and Pithia, too. Those materials would help with the a lot with explanation about Rhcain activities except development.

3. I think the roadmap explanation would help a lot in meetup , too.

4. Rholang materials are also wanted.

That's all I think which are still missing. Feel free to add more.

@David405 @pmoorman @nonnykul @allancto @AyAyRon-P @azazime

[nonnykul]

@zsluedem, I believe this issue still have a long way to go, you have done alot to get materials being used by communities together.

@ All, I believe the focus of most meetups should be a "technical meetup".

[nonnykul]

Africa had its First developers meetup on 21st of July here
Material used during the meetup check.

An interactive session was held on design of computational calculus here

[pmoorman]

Guys, can anyone post an update / summary of progress here over the course of July, so we can vote an appropriate budget?

[nonnykul]

Hey @ pmoorman

Meetup in a box is a successful project, and I believe it's still open for more work in progress.

Contributions:
zsluedem has been active ever since the issue was created, he did the privilege to post slides used for the month of July for meetup #822

• Formalisms: Formal language, Algebra, calculi logic.v1
• CCS: LTS and process calculi.v1
• Proposition all Logic.v1
• Predicate Logic.v1
• Hennessy-Milner Logic without Recursion.v1
• Hennessy-Milner Logic with Recursion.v1
  credit: @ golovach-ivan

Africa had a successful developers meetup on 21st of july #852

nonnykul posted the materials used during the meetup:

Agenda presented during the meetup:

• Welcome speech

• Video presentation: Scalability of the RChain platform

• Talk 1: A decentralized future - Why decentralized?

• Practical session: Writing Smart Contracts in RHolang

• Discussion: The design of RHo calculus
  Grammar

• Rnode testing session

• Fireside chat: How can we contribute as a group to the RChain project

• Brainstorm session

RChain Africa developers meetup 1.0 slide
credit: @nonnykul and David405

David405 created Local meetup guide which I believe is a good start to update the current wiki

[nonnykul]

@pmoorman, AyAyRon-P, zsluedem

meetup in a box had a massive improvement this month, part of the improvement led to#856
M > RChain Community: Local Meetup Development Server
Opened by AyAyRon-P 6 days ago
Marketing Meeting. I believe this two issues "work hand in hand" so it deserves an improvement in the budget and rewards.

I suggest a budget of $700, with rewards of
zsluedem - 35%
nonnykul - 35%
David405 - 25%

[zsluedem]

@pmoorman I agree with @nonnykul ~!

[pmoorman]

Hey guys, I've voted the budget & rewards, and just wanted to say....

I think this issue is an amazing example of the best of the bounty system, where people from all over the world come together to truly collaborate and create something of value. The issue was created by me from Europe, then taken well care of from Asia, Africa, and America. How cool is that?!

Awesome!

[nonnykul]

Hello @everyone

A meetup was held in Croatia recently, it had an outstanding turnout.

Agenda presented during the meetup:

• RChain introduction- communication
  network of future
• Society issues and impact
• Security
• Cooperation
• Rholang

Slide used during the meetup here.
cc: @Neven
More details from the meetup can be found here

[nonnykul]

Hello @everyone

Berlin the centre for Rcon3 conference hosted its First RChain meetup, 14th of August.
The meetup was streamed live and the turnout was awesome.

I encourage everyone to check details from the meetup here

Anyone planning to host a meetup and needs help on how to grow an "offline meetup community" this nice writeup would be helpful check
cc: @Nick Jordan

[decentralizebanksy]

Can someone compile a weekly / monthly list of RChain meetups? It would make it easier to share and promote across social media channels.

[nonnykul]

@decentralizebansky, from previous comments you would notice I give updates on meetups. Every month I tend to give summary of meetups that was held.

Creating a weekly/ monthly list of meetups will be awesome, it would make publicity more easier.

[nonnykul]

Hello

@Vkhansen hosted the First Thailand community RChain meetup.
details from the meetup #917.
The meetup was geered towards being a technical meetup, the presentations used was an already available material.

• Introduction to RChain slide
• Introducing Rholang here
• Review RChain Tutorial and live examples Check 1
  Check 2
• Introduction to running Rnode on Ubuntu VM
• Free talk, small group discussion.

@pmoorman, @Ojimadu am suggesting we create a template for materials/document to be used in meetup in relation to its audience.

A technical meetup should differ in contents from a general meetup.

[Ojimadu]

I would like to see a "drag and drop" template document that almost anyone can use for presenting RChain on meet-ups so as to ensure accuracy of content, quality and to save time and cost.

[pmoorman]

@nonnykul just wrote me a DM asking for a budget vote on this issue for the month. I see that updates have been made about meetups that have been held, but it's not really in line with the scope of the issue. To what extend was progress made towards creating a "meetup in a box"?

I think we should either change the scope of the issue to match, or —and that's probably better— start a separate issue if we want to track past meetups that have been held.

Personally, I'm not really convinced that just tracking previous meetups is helpful in itself. My suggestion would be that merely archiving meetups is not enough, and that we need to use that knowledge to produce templates that others can use in the future. That's where the value is.

This seems to be in line with the suggestion of @Ojimadu above. Valueble documents that could be created include:

1. A template / slidedeck master like @Ojimadu describes above
2. A place (maybe it could be here) where we record materials used by previous meetups, but maybe make them searchable in a way that others (that need to create their own meetup) would find helpful.

@nonnykul if you're feeling enthusiastic about this, I suggest you update the issue description, and get going with that!

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P.S. As marketing guides we've made it a point to no longer have budget-related discussions in DM. All such discussions should happen in their respective issues. People instead of DM, just @mention us here

[AyAyRon-P]

@pmoorman we've been documenting all of the previous presentations/meetups in the Local Meetup Development Server.

@Ojimadu Creating a template is a good idea but we've been waiting for graphic assets and style guide from Girvin. Now that we have that we can put those together, but I do believe that @patrick727 and his marketing group are putting these presentation items together.

[pmoorman]

Oke, @AyAyRon-P it sounds like you are in a much better situation here to talk with @nonnykul and together find a path to execute here.

Since you're also a label guide for marketing, I'll follow your lead on these matters.

[golovach-ivan]

Meetup "Formal Verification for realworld business" (#944) was held in software development company with insuarance specialisation (Fortifier) for management and developers.

• Video on Youtube Channel with 25k+ IT-subscribers (in Rus).
• Slides (in Eng).

[dckc]

In today's meeting (#995) we started a Meetup label, with #619 and #987 as case studies. @PatrickM727 took the ball to work our more of the details in the meetup guidelines wiki page (along with @AyAyRon-P ?)

See also #692