Title: Building And Growing A Meetup
Author: Dee Teal
Published: December 4, 2016
Last modified: April 25, 2023

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# Building And Growing A Meetup

## In this article

 * [Having a Great Organizing Team](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/building-and-growing-a-meetup/?output_format=md#having-a-great-organizing-team)
 * [Diversity and Inclusion](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/building-and-growing-a-meetup/?output_format=md#diversity-and-inclusion)

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### 󠀁[Having a Great Organizing Team](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/building-and-growing-a-meetup/?output_format=md#having-a-great-organizing-team)󠁿

Being an organizing team of one can be an enormous amount of work, so if you are
planning to grow and develop your group, you will need others around you to help.
Here are some tips to identifying people who may be great assets to your MeetupMeetup
Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events
on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our [Meetup Organizer Handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/).
group.

 1. They are team players and are always around
 2. They help without asking
 3. They may be the first to arrive and the last to leave
 4. They participate
 5. They may be keen to organize meetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized 
    groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once
    a month). Learn more about Meetups in our [Meetup Organizer Handbook](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/).
    around their area of interest in WordPress

Quality team members may not be the loudest, most outgoing person there, but the
quiet achievers who are loyal and regular attendees are obviously getting a lot 
out of Meetup and could be quietly encouraged to take on an organizing role.

We also ask everyone associated with a WordPress Chapter Meetup in an official capacity(
e.g., organizer, speaker, sponsor) to uphold the principles of the WordPress open
sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code
is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must
be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project, including the GPLGPL GPL
is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses 
for Open Source licensing [https://wordpress.org/about/license/](https://wordpress.org/about/license/).
The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html).
This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms.
This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license
and the MIT License are widely used examples.. This helps protect the user/attendee,
who might not realize that by using a non-GPL pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of
software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website.
They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress
plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with
WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. or theme, they are giving away the
rights that WordPress provides them.

### 󠀁[Diversity and Inclusion](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/building-and-growing-a-meetup/?output_format=md#diversity-and-inclusion)󠁿

For more information on encouraging diverse speakers and audiences, see the handbook
section “[Creating Diverse and Inclusive Meetups](https://make.wordpress.org/community/handbook/meetup-organizer/building-and-growing-a-meetup/creating-diverse-and-inclusive-meetups/)”.

First published

December 4, 2016

Last updated

April 25, 2023

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