WPParra: State of the Meetup (7/10/14)

S TAT E O F T H E M E E T U P# W P PA R RA

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• Our first Meetup (in Parramatta)

• July 1, 2013 at City Extra

• “Anyone else interested in a local western suburbs meetup, we can choose a cafe in church st, parramatta if anyone else in this area is interested.”

• Organised by Mitch

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• Organised independent of the Sydney Meetups

• …but they have always been supportive of us

• …and have embraced us as part one of the “franchises”

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• We have always been a Morning Meetup.

• Our number one complaint: “You’re a morning Meetup.”

• Many comments online: “Hey, I was there at 7:30pm, no one was there.”

• Strong push for evening Meetups.

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• City Extra

• Great place to have breakfast and network

• Awful place to run a presentation

• Loud

• No screens

• No clear way to present there

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• TAFE GWS Office (i.e. here)

• Seems like a pretty good place for the Meetup.

• Expensive.

• Tonight was an experiment in holding an evening Meetup

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• Parramatta College

• Seems like a pretty good place for the Meetup.

• Affordable.

• We will try a few more evening Meetups at Parramatta College.

• 410 Church St, North Parramatta NSW 2151

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• Where do we go from here?

• We need to build our member base.

• We need speakers!

• We need to promote ourselves a little better

• Hashtag: #wpparra

• Matches other WordPress hashtags (wpsyd, wpmelb, etc)

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