The goal of this resource is to help you become a more effective R-Ladies Meetup organizer. Whether you've organized community groups before, or this is your first foray into community organizing, this guide aims to help you:

• Organize effective events
• Spread the word about your Meetup
• Get sponsors (and swag) for your Meetup
• Recruit and support co-organizers
• Deal with tricky issues: some perspectives on allowing men to come + teaching effective allyship
• Build a community that runs itself!

Learning how to effectively run and organize a chapter once you've started an R-Ladies group can be tricky, but I want to share what I've learned in the process of starting a Meetup to share with you and future organizers. Organizing is a skill, just like learning to program, and having a friendly guide can make all the difference.

(This will eventually take the format of a bookdown book, but the above is my vision for this resource.)

Questions? Wanna help out? Join the organizer-guide R-Ladies team! We discuss in the #organisers and #organizer-guide channel in the R-Ladies Slack. You can also contact me at [email protected], or open an issue in this repository!