How do I find volunteers and venues for Community activities?

Let's start with the venue!

First of all, you must start to ask people you know. Ada has a micro-group called "community leaders", which contains some common activities. the CTO club also knows some companies that can provide free conference rooms for small-scale technology sharing, in these records, there is no need to worry about the Beijing site. Finally, I chose Shanda Innovation Institute because they are large enough, and our activities can also push their Shanda cloud services, at that time, Fan Lu was very pleased to respond to our request.

Shenzhen, with coffee, the venue is of good quality and the bosses are friendly. Their coffee itself has a profit demand, and the charges are understandable. There is no absolute free space in the world, but some needs can be met without money. What communities do is sometimes more like resource swaps.

Let's talk about the wing-up cafe in Chengdu. Wing-up coffee shop is a coffee shop created by Telecom Tianyi people, where there are many mobile development activities. The editor-in-chief of CSDN's former mobile channel is currently operating this coffee shop (haomu envy wow ~~), So I contacted him and asked him if he could use it. I also contacted a friend named congcong009 in the micro-group, who is an active member of the Blender Chengdu community due to concerns about the venue charges, (I later learned that he had a lot of dealings with CSDN, and the world was very small.) I asked him if he could help me borrow a free venue in Chengdu. He said no problem. I will reply after work, yes. I have communicated this situation with the editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief said, why bother me? Come here! Well, that's OK. Then the enthusiastic congcong asked me if he could help us with anything else, so I asked him to write reports for the activity. Hey!

After moving to Xi'an, David from the GDG Xi'an community often runs activities. Therefore, he is also a familiar road in Xi'an. But before finding him, it was still a great deal of money. The meeting rooms of many companies are too small or time-consuming. Then I searched "Xi'an, community" on Weibo and contacted David. Not only does this make me feel that it is very important to maintain good cooperation and contact with various local communities.

The events in Shanghai and Nanjing were initiated by Ben (du Yujie). Therefore, the sponsor was commissioned for the event. He also found many places in Shanghai. How can he find them? You can @ ben _ Du Yujie.

In Tianjin, I was recommended by my colleague Xie Hai. Tianjin Binhai New Area is also attracting investment, and our activities can also attract some popularity for them, which is also a little benefit for enterprises who have already joined, so they are very happy to provide venues. By the way, the venue is very comfortable and the services provided by their team are considerate and considerate.

The last place is in Wuhan. As cheng hui's old nest, I was not worried about the venue at first. However, he started to be very busy at the end of November, so I started to work on the venue. According to my experience at Nanjing University, the University Classroom still feels very nostalgic and comfortable, so I asked my friends from Wuhan University and huake who registered in Wuhan station, we hope they can help us. Huake gave a reply first. In order not to bother more people, but also to reply to the registration staff early, the location was finalized.

In general, coffee shops, company meeting room activity rooms, and university classrooms are optional. People from many vendors prefer coffee shops. They seem to be more neutral and have a complete set of environments and services. However, when I returned from my college classroom, I also heard many people say that Community activities in such areas are also very good. After working for many years, I went back to campus and even listened to lectures, there is a feeling that the mind is very quiet in learning.

Next, let's talk about volunteers.

A group of volunteers saw cheng hui's contact information with me on the activity introduction page. They contacted us and asked us what we could do for the community, just in addition to Beijing and Shenzhen, videos and reports from other local activities are not under the responsibility of others. We also adhere to the principle that community activities should make full use of the power of the community, therefore, the glorious task of recording and reporting was assigned to the people who came to consult. Some headhunting circles and regional media also offered to help us promote this activity, but few of them did.

After all, this kind of enthusiastic people is a minority, and some volunteers reply to the volunteer request that was attached when I sent a confirmation letter to the meeting.

Most volunteers are not out of school, and some are very active community members.

One of the biggest feelings from finding venues and volunteers is that there are really many good people. Except that the former editor-in-chief was a former colleague and others were all friends of his life. When I was in contact online, I never even said hello. They have provided these support, and have never asked for the return. This is an absolute positive energy!