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From: Giles Sirett <giles.sirett@shapeblue.com>
To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
Thread-Topic: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
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Hi Vahric

Sorry, I should have responded to you earlier.....things have been a little=
 crazy with the build up to CCCEU13

I've been running the CloudStack European User Group for nearly 2 years now=
.  We've got 280 members and have meetings every 3 months

We run a group on linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cloudstack-European-User-Group-4294158?trk=
=3Dmy_groups-b-grp-v

and also a meetup group.
http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-European-User-Group/

I'd happily give you access to either of these to help you with your organi=
sation  of your community

I also help Sebastien, Harm & Hugo with the BuildACloudDays . Also, I am ha=
ppy to come over to Istanbul with Sebastien,et al  to speak at your first e=
vent


Our meetings were 2 hours  - but we've recently moved to half days


A key thing when organising meetings is to acknowledge *who* your audience =
are going to be. Are you going to try to build a developer focussed group o=
r a user/operator focused group? My advice is to keep it generic to start w=
ith and then you can go in the direction that the members take the group

The content template we usually use is:

1. Roundup of Cloudstack news since last meeting
2. 1 x technical deep dive talk (i.e. on subject like networking, a certain=
 piece of integration, etc)
3. a talk from an "eco system" vendor doing something interesting
4. a talk from a cloudstack user (i.e. a company using the tech) on what th=
ey've been doing

This format has worked well.

My suggestion would be to start with a bang: try to organise (jointly with =
Sebastien? )  as full day "Build a Cloud" style day with as many guest spea=
kers as possible.
Sebastien and I did one recently and we did:

1. intro
2.cloudstack 101 for beginners
3. Cloudstack business use-cases
4. talk on ceph
5. talk on basho
6. intro to Cloudstack networking

I usually allow 8-10 weeks to promote a meeting

Hope this helps, please do ask if you need any further advice


Kind Regards
Giles

D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055
Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Vahric Muhtaryan [mailto:vahric@doruk.net.tr]
Sent: 25 November 2013 10:23
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey

Thanks for all helps , we need a time , i will inform you step by step what=
 we accomplish We are very happy to see you in istanbul Thanks for support =
VM

On 25/11/13 12:11, "Sebastien Goasguen" <runseb@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Vahric Muhtaryan <vahric@doruk.net.tr> wrote:
>
>> I got all thanks
>> Now we have to prepare for such meetings , we have a plans and first
>>we  will start via friends, colleagues , twitter and linkedin find and
>>invite  the people  In two months we will fill the Turkish web site
>>with apache cloudstack  articles  Then will prepare some small events
>>After we sure that we can touch enough people then we will have a big
>>session with audience  Here we will request your help , i guess you
>>can help us to support our  meetings like send some guys who have deep
>>knowledge , like to give  t-shorts of cloudstack or like that  Now its
>>to early to talk but we will try to reach enough people and start  the
>>meetings in first quarter of 2014
>>
>
>Vahric, I will be happy to fly over to Istanbul for one of your meet ups.
>Check http://sebgoa.blogspot.com for interesting content.
>
>-Sebastien
>
>> Regards
>> VM
>>
>> On 22/11/13 23:48, "Karen Vuong" <karen.vuong@citrix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Vahric,
>>>
>>> In addition to Radhika's advice of having regular meetups, it also
>>>helps  to ask the audience for their feedback on the session and what
>>>they would  like to see at future meetups. John Kinsella does a great
>>>job by doing  this with our CloudStack Bay Area Users Group. He will
>>>usually ask the  audience after the meetup by giving them the
>>>opportunity to raise their  hands and give us their feedback. Another
>>>way is to post the question on  the discussion board of your meetup
>>>group.
>>>
>>> I also found that sending reminders of an upcoming meetup to your
>>>members  is helpful. With the busy schedules of attendees, many of
>>>them can easily  forget :)
>>>
>>> We started off with an Intro to CloudStack meetup
>>>
>>>(http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-SF-Bay-Area-Users-Group/events/1037
>>>259
>>>62
>>> /), then led into storage and a hands-on hacking session (which was
>>>very  popular). You'll need at least 3-4 people running around the
>>>room  answering their questions and giving advice during this
>>>session.
>>>
>>> We hold regular meetups every 45 days or so and if you have one
>>> scheduled, feel free to email this list with a link to your upcoming
>>> CloudStack meetup so that community members with credentials to the
>>> Apache CloudStack social media channels can promote.
>>>
>>> One other idea is to take pictures of your meetups and post them in
>>> the photos section of your meetup group. I think members love seeing
>>> the action and it creates an inviting feel to new members.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps! There's still a lot for us to learn as well but
>>>it's  quite fun and you will start seeing repeat attendees and
>>>getting to know  them :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kelly Hair
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:44 AM
>>> To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org; Karen Vuong
>>> Subject: Re: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
>>>
>>> Karen - in addition to Radhika=B9s excellent advice, do you have
>>> anything to share?
>>>
>>> Also, for the list, what materials can be shared to help the Turkish
>>> group get off the ground?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/19/13, 12:00 AM, "Radhika Puthiyetath"
>>> <radhika.puthiyetath@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Awesome !
>>>>
>>>> To start with, go ahead and create a user group, similar to
>>>> meetup.com/CloudStack-Bangalore-Group/
>>>>
>>>> Invite CloudStack enthusiasts for talks. Have regular Meetups. Simple.
>>>>
>>>> You can also track the CloudStack events at
>>>> http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=3Dapache+cloudstack
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vahric Muhtaryan [mailto:vahric@doruk.net.tr]
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:39 PM
>>>> To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
>>>>
>>>> Hello Kelly and Harm ,
>>>>
>>>> We are looking for establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey.
>>>> Now myself and my colleague Mehmet Mart, working on Apache Cloud
>>>>Stack  for how to implement it on our environment.
>>>> We are woking on DorukNET www.doruk.net.tr and its the biggest
>>>>service  provider and first cloud implementer in Turkey with Hyper-v
>>>>and first  vCloud Powered Certified DC in Turkey.
>>>> Now also we want to open to open world.
>>>> We have an options like openstack but because of Mehmets have
>>>>citrix  background and i like the apache project focused on
>>>>cloudstack When we  work on we start to think about how we can
>>>>introduce ACS in Turkey, we  would like to establish VMUG similar user =
group here.
>>>> Because of we are working on ISP we have  a good relations with
>>>>Netapp  , Juniper , IBM , F5 and we also want to see all this
>>>>plugins  functionality with ACS Also start to write something in my
>>>>blog because  when you search something about cloudstack mostly
>>>>cloudstack owen  documents appearing and we believe to create more
>>>>articles on our  blogs. vmknowledge.wordpress.com
>>>>
>>>> Now we would like to learn can we establish such thing in Turkey ?
>>>>What
>>>> is the requirement and how you can help us to improve it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Vahric Muhtaryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


Kind Regards
Giles

D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055
Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Vahric Muhtaryan [mailto:vahric@doruk.net.tr]
Sent: 25 November 2013 10:23
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey

Thanks for all helps , we need a time , i will inform you step by step what=
 we accomplish We are very happy to see you in istanbul Thanks for support =
VM

On 25/11/13 12:11, "Sebastien Goasguen" <runseb@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Vahric Muhtaryan <vahric@doruk.net.tr> wrote:
>
>> I got all thanks
>> Now we have to prepare for such meetings , we have a plans and first
>>we  will start via friends, colleagues , twitter and linkedin find and
>>invite  the people  In two months we will fill the Turkish web site
>>with apache cloudstack  articles  Then will prepare some small events
>>After we sure that we can touch enough people then we will have a big
>>session with audience  Here we will request your help , i guess you
>>can help us to support our  meetings like send some guys who have deep
>>knowledge , like to give  t-shorts of cloudstack or like that  Now its
>>to early to talk but we will try to reach enough people and start  the
>>meetings in first quarter of 2014
>>
>
>Vahric, I will be happy to fly over to Istanbul for one of your meet ups.
>Check http://sebgoa.blogspot.com for interesting content.
>
>-Sebastien
>
>> Regards
>> VM
>>
>> On 22/11/13 23:48, "Karen Vuong" <karen.vuong@citrix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Vahric,
>>>
>>> In addition to Radhika's advice of having regular meetups, it also
>>>helps  to ask the audience for their feedback on the session and what
>>>they would  like to see at future meetups. John Kinsella does a great
>>>job by doing  this with our CloudStack Bay Area Users Group. He will
>>>usually ask the  audience after the meetup by giving them the
>>>opportunity to raise their  hands and give us their feedback. Another
>>>way is to post the question on  the discussion board of your meetup
>>>group.
>>>
>>> I also found that sending reminders of an upcoming meetup to your
>>>members  is helpful. With the busy schedules of attendees, many of
>>>them can easily  forget :)
>>>
>>> We started off with an Intro to CloudStack meetup
>>>
>>>(http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-SF-Bay-Area-Users-Group/events/1037
>>>259
>>>62
>>> /), then led into storage and a hands-on hacking session (which was
>>>very  popular). You'll need at least 3-4 people running around the
>>>room  answering their questions and giving advice during this
>>>session.
>>>
>>> We hold regular meetups every 45 days or so and if you have one
>>> scheduled, feel free to email this list with a link to your upcoming
>>> CloudStack meetup so that community members with credentials to the
>>> Apache CloudStack social media channels can promote.
>>>
>>> One other idea is to take pictures of your meetups and post them in
>>> the photos section of your meetup group. I think members love seeing
>>> the action and it creates an inviting feel to new members.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps! There's still a lot for us to learn as well but
>>>it's  quite fun and you will start seeing repeat attendees and
>>>getting to know  them :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kelly Hair
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:44 AM
>>> To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org; Karen Vuong
>>> Subject: Re: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
>>>
>>> Karen - in addition to Radhika=B9s excellent advice, do you have
>>> anything to share?
>>>
>>> Also, for the list, what materials can be shared to help the Turkish
>>> group get off the ground?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/19/13, 12:00 AM, "Radhika Puthiyetath"
>>> <radhika.puthiyetath@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Awesome !
>>>>
>>>> To start with, go ahead and create a user group, similar to
>>>> meetup.com/CloudStack-Bangalore-Group/
>>>>
>>>> Invite CloudStack enthusiasts for talks. Have regular Meetups. Simple.
>>>>
>>>> You can also track the CloudStack events at
>>>> http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=3Dapache+cloudstack
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vahric Muhtaryan [mailto:vahric@doruk.net.tr]
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:39 PM
>>>> To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey
>>>>
>>>> Hello Kelly and Harm ,
>>>>
>>>> We are looking for establish Cloudstack User Group in Turkey.
>>>> Now myself and my colleague Mehmet Mart, working on Apache Cloud
>>>>Stack  for how to implement it on our environment.
>>>> We are woking on DorukNET www.doruk.net.tr and its the biggest
>>>>service  provider and first cloud implementer in Turkey with Hyper-v
>>>>and first  vCloud Powered Certified DC in Turkey.
>>>> Now also we want to open to open world.
>>>> We have an options like openstack but because of Mehmets have
>>>>citrix  background and i like the apache project focused on
>>>>cloudstack When we  work on we start to think about how we can
>>>>introduce ACS in Turkey, we  would like to establish VMUG similar user =
group here.
>>>> Because of we are working on ISP we have  a good relations with
>>>>Netapp  , Juniper , IBM , F5 and we also want to see all this
>>>>plugins  functionality with ACS Also start to write something in my
>>>>blog because  when you search something about cloudstack mostly
>>>>cloudstack owen  documents appearing and we believe to create more
>>>>articles on our  blogs. vmknowledge.wordpress.com
>>>>
>>>> Now we would like to learn can we establish such thing in Turkey ?
>>>>What
>>>> is the requirement and how you can help us to improve it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Vahric Muhtaryan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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