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New Team Member! Chase Livingston from South Carolina (@chaselivingston) will be starting to help out with 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. administration as well. Trained him on processes like I did with @andymci a couple of weeks back, and will likely have have him focus on reaching out to existing groups in between-roll in periods.

Note: We are smack in the middle of the quarterly roll-in period for existing meetup.com groups, so I’m working through all the outstanding requests to join the chapter program. To that end, I’m going to start a series of meetup organizer hangouts similar to the ones being done around WordCamps. Will start out with a split between existing groups who want to join the chapter account and people who want to start a new group from scratch, since the orientations are so different. Once we get those started, I’m hoping we can standardize a few other topics (esp as tied to the mentorship stuff @andymci is working on), and where applicable, have some that work for both WC and meetup organizers (how to find a venue, budgets and running money through foundation, etc).

We’ll use the WordPress google+ account for these, and I’ll post details on this blog later today with dates and times.

#hangouts, #meetup-com, #meetups-2

10 of the existing 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. groups that we invited to join the central account haven’t responded to the meetup.com opt-in email yet. Have contacted them again to make sure they got the emails, will have meetup.com re-send as needed.
Rolled in another 8 new groups.
12 pending groups that are either complicated (competing groups) or new without enough information.
Billing cycle for next quarter coming up, we’ll be paying for a total of 100 groups for the Jan-Mar period.
Planning to send a year-end email to all organizers on the central account to get input into a plan for the 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. program in the coming year (monthly newsletters from central, speaker matchups, etc).

#meetup-com, #meetups-2

Meetup.com transfers! These applications to join the central account have been getting done in batches each week based on their various statuses. I’ll start posting weekly updates on this program, and will tap someone else to take point on transfers/new setups in the nearish future.

Today’s update:

18 existing groups: Submitted to meetup.com for immediate transfer on account owner confirmation.
9 “complicated” existing groups (inactive, wanting to compete with an existing group, owner isn’t the one who applied, etc): Emailed applicants and/or owners for more info before proceeding
2 new groups: Created new 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. groups in areas where one did not already exist, applicant seemed to know what they were doing, and they included all the necessary information in the application form.
6 “pending” new groups: Emailed the organizer applicants to get more info or make sure they knew what they were signing up for, but ready to set up on response based on what we know so far.
17 “complicated” new groups: Still researching the situation in the area and/or the applicant, will reply this week as situation is understood.

With this round, we’ll be hitting the 80 groups we currently have room for on the central account, so in the Jan-Mar invoicing cycle, I’ve upped the count to 100 to allow for more new 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. in the coming quarter (we only get to change the number of groups on our account once per quarter due to billing).

I’m ready to train a couple of volunteers on responding to the meetup applications to help speed up the process. Interested? Required qualifications:

Experience running a WordPress meetup
In good standing with the community
Available to work on this around 1-2 hours a week
Reliable
Able to communicate it English, but international folks welcome

Leave a comment if this sounds like something you’d want to help with. For that matter, these are the same qualifications that will be desired for helping with overall meetup program management (creating starter packs, etc), so if you’re interested in another area of meetups, post in the comments. Thanks!

#meetup-com, #meetups-2