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LUG Meetings

0. Prep

  • create forums post
    • ask people for ideas on content, date and location
    • hint: copy contents of previous meeting's post and update accordingly.
  • create shorturl
    • log into provider's webspace via sFTP or similar
    • create new link in .htaccess (either wuelog.org/xx or noblug.org/xx)
  • update Group Information page
    • add link to upcoming meeting's post

1. Topic

  • Find a theme for the evening
    • once set, think about “artwork”
  • Find presenters for the theme

2. Details

  • Pick a date and time
    • for WUELUG it's always 5 - 9pm
  • Pick a location

3a. Finalise

  1. Create art work
    • find free stock photography that goes with the topic
    • add copy (what, where, when)
  2. Create Eventbrite page
    • put image and text
    • update shorturl for event
      • either noblugXX.eventbrite.co.uk or wuelugXX.eventbrite.de
  3. Update forums post
    • update text
    • add image
    • add date/time/location
    • add eventbrite link
  4. Post to other locations
    • LV Discord server
    • Invite to LabVIEWWiki Calendar
      • Invite the LabVIEWWiki as a guest (labviewwiki -at- gmail -dot- com) and include all relevant details
    • …?

3b. Update

  • keep both NI forums post and Eventbrite page up to date with changes to agenda or time/date/location
  • add entries to Zenkit Marketing Posts
    • post on usual channels with artwork and brief description
    • repost periodically (once a week?)

5. Event

  • Use Eventbrite to track actual participants
    • only registered users who show up will be tracked for recertification points
    • look into using the Eventbrite app for that

6. Post-Processing

  • update the Group Information page
    • move the “next meeting” item down to “previous meetings”
    • add the preliminary date for the next meeting three months in the future without link
      • eg “#21: March 2024” and the topic “Tbd.”
  • update the meeting's post with a summary of what happened and how it went
    • take previous (WUELUG) meetings' summaries as template
  • publish blog post

NI Recertification


HSE Data Locations

These locations are specific to our own HSE infrastructure. Feel free to copy the basic setup for your own user groups.

1. NAS

Path: \\Marketing\User_Groups\

  • generic content about user groups
  • private data (eg. participants lists)

2. Google Drive (public)

URL: /xxxLUG/

  • default artwork
    • this serves as placeholder and template for meeting-specific artwork
  • meetings
    • one folder per meeting labelled eg NOBLUG00 2024-06
      • marketing (folder containing art work etc)
      • photos (folder photos of the meeting)
      • any presentations etc
  • logo
  • misc. stuff

3. Google Drive (internal)

URL: /Hampel-Soft/User Groups/xxxLUG internal/

  • non-public things like brainstorming documents, member lists etc.
kb/bestpractices/meetings/lug.txt · Last modified: 2026/03/17 14:13 by joerg.hampel