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This post is Part 2 in Leading a WordPress Meetup Group. Be sure to read Part 1, as well.

In my last post, I talked about some of the things that my local WordPress Developer meetup did last year and what we’re looking to do this year. As much as I dig meeting other local developers, my own group didn’t start until just last year.

I think they can be an invaluable resource for a lot of people and I think it’s pretty stellar to see people putting together their own groups. But if you’re new to the whole meetup scene, there’s a couple of things you need to get started.

Here, I’ll outline a few things that you can do to get your WordPress Developer Meetup started using stuff that we’ve found successful.

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This post is Part 1 in Leading a WordPress Meetup Group. Read Part 2 if you're looking to start one.

One of the things that I love about the development community – regardless of what language, platform, or technology used – is that we love holding meetups in order to get together and chat about what’s relevant to our work as well as to help one another get better at what we do.

Last year, shortly after WordCamp Atlanta, I ended up joining my local WordPress Developer Meetup group (and props to Naomi C. Bush for putting that together).

One of the challenges of holding a developer-specific meetup group is that it can seem irrelevant to even those who may be considered advanced users versus, y’know, developers.

As such, Naomi and I are working together to increase the quality of the group by widening the scope. We also have some plans to help to keep those of you who aren’t local to stay up to date with what our group is doing.

In the this posts and the one following, I want to share what we’re doing locally and then some tips that we’ve learned from experience as to what you can do locally to help begin a local development group.

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