I'm in the process of starting a User Group in my area related to .NET development. The format of the community will be the average free food, presentation, and then maybe free swag giveaway.
我正在开发与.NET开发相关的区域中的用户组。社区的格式将是平均免费食物,演示,然后可能免费赃物赠品。
What would you, as a member of a user community, look for in order to keep you coming back month to month?
作为用户社区的成员,您会寻找什么才能让您每个月都能回来?
3 个解决方案
#1
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It's true that some of the talks out there are very rudimentary, unfortunately some times the bulk of your crowd may need that. I consider myself a novice in a lot of fields, but I've attend talks that I thought were beneath me and still people were asking very basic questions. Perhaps it would be worth having a bi-monthly user group, one week for entry level and one week for advanced. It doesn't necessarily have to mean twice the work if you can get someone to help you coordinate a lot of the work will overlap. On the other hand you might just need to feel out the members of the group and see what their average skill level is and play to that.
确实,那里的一些谈话非常简陋,不幸的是,有时大部分人都可能需要这样做。我认为自己在很多领域都是新手,但是我参加了我认为在我之下的谈话,但人们仍在问非常基本的问题。也许值得拥有双月度用户组,入门级为一周,高级为一周。它不一定意味着两倍的工作,如果你可以让某人帮助你协调很多工作将重叠。另一方面,你可能只需要感觉到小组成员,看看他们的平均技能水平是什么,并发挥作用。
#2
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I always like talks on different subjects. The real hard thing about talking to a specialized community is keeping the detail level high and the scope narrow. What's the point of talking to a bunch of .NET programmers about the benefits of Polymorphism? It always kills me when I go to a meeting on a particular subject and get the most rudimentary explanation and examples. Its a waste of time.
我总是喜欢谈论不同的主题。与专业社区交谈的真正困难在于保持细节水平高,范围狭窄。与一群.NET程序员谈论多态性的好处有什么意义?当我参加某个特定主题的会议并得到最基本的解释和例子时,它总会让我失望。这是浪费时间。
MSDN webcasts have a level system that describes the complexity of the subject. Most are level 100 or 200. If you're dealing with a group of professionals, your talks should always be at level 600-1000.
MSDN网络广播具有描述主题复杂性的级别系统。大多数是100或200级。如果你正在与一群专业人士打交道,你的谈话应始终在600-1000级。
In addition to talking about technical subjects, another big area to hit is professional development. How do you make yourself a more valuable programmer? These types of talks are great for bringing in other people, such as management, sales, customers, etc. People who you normally only associate with under protest, and who you typically curse under your breath when they walk by. A user group forum is a great way to bring these people together with developers in a pseudo-group therapy like setting.
除了谈论技术主题,另一个重要的领域是专业发展。你如何让自己成为更有价值的程序员?这些类型的谈话非常适合引入其他人,例如管理层,销售人员,客户等。通常只会在*中与之交往的人,以及在他们走过时通常会诅咒你的人。用户组论坛是一种很好的方式,可以让这些人与开发人员一起进行伪团体治疗。
Also, donuts.
#3
1
If there isn't beer, its not a good enough user group to attend. The open source guys get this. Their user group meetings are funner, and more dynamic because of this. Just make it BYOB and it'll naturally get better in my experience.
如果没有啤酒,它的用户群就不够好了。开源人员得到了这个。他们的用户组会议更加有趣,因此更具活力。只需将它制作成BYOB,我的体验自然会变得更好。
#1
4
It's true that some of the talks out there are very rudimentary, unfortunately some times the bulk of your crowd may need that. I consider myself a novice in a lot of fields, but I've attend talks that I thought were beneath me and still people were asking very basic questions. Perhaps it would be worth having a bi-monthly user group, one week for entry level and one week for advanced. It doesn't necessarily have to mean twice the work if you can get someone to help you coordinate a lot of the work will overlap. On the other hand you might just need to feel out the members of the group and see what their average skill level is and play to that.
确实,那里的一些谈话非常简陋,不幸的是,有时大部分人都可能需要这样做。我认为自己在很多领域都是新手,但是我参加了我认为在我之下的谈话,但人们仍在问非常基本的问题。也许值得拥有双月度用户组,入门级为一周,高级为一周。它不一定意味着两倍的工作,如果你可以让某人帮助你协调很多工作将重叠。另一方面,你可能只需要感觉到小组成员,看看他们的平均技能水平是什么,并发挥作用。
#2
4
I always like talks on different subjects. The real hard thing about talking to a specialized community is keeping the detail level high and the scope narrow. What's the point of talking to a bunch of .NET programmers about the benefits of Polymorphism? It always kills me when I go to a meeting on a particular subject and get the most rudimentary explanation and examples. Its a waste of time.
我总是喜欢谈论不同的主题。与专业社区交谈的真正困难在于保持细节水平高,范围狭窄。与一群.NET程序员谈论多态性的好处有什么意义?当我参加某个特定主题的会议并得到最基本的解释和例子时,它总会让我失望。这是浪费时间。
MSDN webcasts have a level system that describes the complexity of the subject. Most are level 100 or 200. If you're dealing with a group of professionals, your talks should always be at level 600-1000.
MSDN网络广播具有描述主题复杂性的级别系统。大多数是100或200级。如果你正在与一群专业人士打交道,你的谈话应始终在600-1000级。
In addition to talking about technical subjects, another big area to hit is professional development. How do you make yourself a more valuable programmer? These types of talks are great for bringing in other people, such as management, sales, customers, etc. People who you normally only associate with under protest, and who you typically curse under your breath when they walk by. A user group forum is a great way to bring these people together with developers in a pseudo-group therapy like setting.
除了谈论技术主题,另一个重要的领域是专业发展。你如何让自己成为更有价值的程序员?这些类型的谈话非常适合引入其他人,例如管理层,销售人员,客户等。通常只会在*中与之交往的人,以及在他们走过时通常会诅咒你的人。用户组论坛是一种很好的方式,可以让这些人与开发人员一起进行伪团体治疗。
Also, donuts.
#3
1
If there isn't beer, its not a good enough user group to attend. The open source guys get this. Their user group meetings are funner, and more dynamic because of this. Just make it BYOB and it'll naturally get better in my experience.
如果没有啤酒,它的用户群就不够好了。开源人员得到了这个。他们的用户组会议更加有趣,因此更具活力。只需将它制作成BYOB,我的体验自然会变得更好。