Introduction: PHPJutland in Denmark

Hello UG-Admins I am Jesper Jacobsen, I run the Danish PHPJutland group. [image: 1.png] We've been up and running for a year and a half now, and are finally starting to gain some real traction. However, developers in Denmark are still very shy, as there has been no precedence for meetups or the likes beforehand. Luckily it's contagious, and companies that has hosted us has started to do similar events. What's your best advice for reaching out to new users, and to potential speakers? It's currently quite the challenge to find speakers as they are shy, and Denmark is quite split. About 50% of the developers we can use as speakers are located in the capitol, Copenhagen, about three hours away. We have had speakers from there before, but I don't think we can do that every time. Aarhus, where we're located has a lot of great companies, but they aren't very keen on speaking, unfortunately. I'd be glad to hear anything you can tell me about running a Meetup, as I still feel very new to the whole process. Thank you very much - Jesper