[franze]

I grew viennajs from 5 people in a cellar (when I took over) to Austrias biggest monthly dev meetup (100+ live attendees each month, ~1.8k on the newsletter). i always made a point to give a really un-perfect code talk (called orga intro talk) each month.

why? a) i love talking code, b) i wanted to show everybody that it is ok at meetups to just talk - even if the talk is not yet finished. the discussions after these unfinished talks were quite often much better than the ones after really well prepared ones.

additionally i made sure that there was always a good selection of newbie talks and perfect (sometimes int. speaker) talks.

so my tip: choose a meetup, go there, give a talk.