We love and support Meet-ups. If you would like someone from the GitLab team to stop by your event or interested in having GitLab as a sponsor please email evangelists@gitlab.com. Please note, we will be much more able to assist if given sufficient lead time (at least a month) to evaluate your request, process payment, produce merchandise, etc.
If you are interested in creating your own GitLab Meet-Up or if you already have an existing Meet-up on meetup.com that you'd like linked to GitLab's meetup.com Pro account, please email evangelists@gitlab.com. You can find the list of GitLab meetups on the meetup.com page.
When you are getting started, we recommend scheduling at least 2 meet-ups. Publish your first meeting with a date and topic, and then a second meeting with a date and topic. The second meeting can have a flexible topic based on how the first meeting goes. The point of setting two meet-ups is to help build momentum in the new group.
Ideally, the first couple of meet-ups would include GitLab employees. Once someone manages to have a couple of successful events, it'd be easy for a meet-up sustain itself. It is much harder to start new meet-ups versus maintaining existing ones. So we make an effort to support and keep existing events going.
Reach out to other like-topic Meet-Ups and invite them to your Meet-Up.
Once you have scheduled your Meet-Up, add the event to our events page so the whole world knows! Check out the How to add an event to the events .yml section if you need help on how to add an event.
If you purchase any food & beverage for the meetup event, we can help reimburse the expense. A general guideline is $US 5/person for a maximum of $US 500 per each meetup. You will be asked to provide receipts, attendees list/photo, etc. If you have questions or need help with food & beverage reimbursements, please email evangelists@gitlab.com.
