2: Oleg Podsechin on Meetups and Communities

Frontend Union Podcast

Our guest today is Oleg Podsechin. A developer, an entrepreneur, a founder of meetups in Moscow, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. We talk about challenges of running a meetup, Oleg’s background, must-read books and more. If you complete the challenge from Oleg, you'll have a chance to get a free ticket! Guest: Oleg Podsechin - https://twitter.com/olegpodsechin Resources: Meetabit – a platform for meetups https://meetabit.com/ MoscowJS http://moscowjs.ru/ HelsinkiJS https://meetabit.com/communities/2 PiterJS https://meetabit.com/communities/1 Helsinki Meta Meetup https://meetabit.com/communities/5 Books: Douglas Crockford "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do Ash Maurya "Running Lean" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13078769-running-lean The challenge: CommunityJS is a list of JS and front end developer communities around the world. To take part in the challenge, go to https://github.com/CommunityJS/CommunityJSData and create a pull request with as many new communities as you can find that aren't already listed in the main repo or other pull requests. Then, tweet out a link to your PR @frontend_union. The winner will be whoever creates a PR with the most number of new communities by August 9th.