[patrickdavey]

I've been helping to run a meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand: https://christchurch.ruby.nz/ for about 10 years (maybe longer, I've lost track!). I _completed_ agree with the article that the best thing you can do to avoid burnout is to organise it with someone else (or better still, two or more others like we do).

The other thing which really worked for us: We were getting fed up trying to badger people to help give talks etc (or just doing it ourselves). Completely exhausting. Ended up saying to the community: "this is your meetup, we just help run it. If we don't get 11 speakers for the year we're going to shut it down". We asked in January, got 11 speakers for the year (Dec is social), and we've been doing it like that ever since. Works an absolute treat. You do need to be prepared for no one to step up, in which case, it's sad, but, shut it down. You're not the community, the community is the community!

[simonhfrost]

One of the best meetups in Ōtautahi!

[mmarian]

That's crazy. A dev meetup in Northampton UK has backlog for 10 months of talks. Although it is generalist.

[stavros]

I run the Python meetup in Thessaloniki, Greece, and it's exhausting trying to find speakers.I frequently skip months because nobody wants to present anything, and we aim to have two presentations on each meetup. I'm almost always the second presenter, and sometimes I'll do both presentations myself (or just skip that month's event).

It is exhausting, and people do always ask when the next one is, but my reply of "whenever you want to speak" doesn't seem to do much to get more speakers.

[arthurcolle]

Someone should do a Delphi meetup at Delphi

[stavros]

About thirty years too late, or two thousand years too late, depending on your viewpoint.