# developer-meetup-program

A skill that turns your coding agent into a user-group organizer: charter, format, cadence, speaker pipeline, sponsors and handover.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 10600 installs · ★ 5
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/developer-meetup-program

## What it does

The skill makes the agent act as an experienced user-group organizer. It interviews you one question at a time and refuses to propose a format until the first seven answers are in: new group or existing one, who the room is, who hosts, what success looks like in a year, the date the next edition must happen, one good evening or a two-year program, and how many organizers you have with what effort ceiling on a tired month.

From there it writes a one-page charter: who the room is for, what a typical evening looks like, how often it happens, who decides the program, what the group refuses to do. You name exactly one primary outcome, not a list. For an independent group the same discipline applies without the business framing: one agreed reason the evening exists.

Your answer about the effort ceiling directly deletes formats. If you are the only organizer, the skill says so plainly: a solo group is one job change from dead. It advises recruiting a second organizer within the first three editions rather than later. Numbers come in two kinds, sourced from named organizer programs or set as baselines by the skill itself, and the agent labels which kind it is quoting, because a baseline passed off as an industry standard costs trust in the whole plan.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-meetup-program -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/developer-meetup-program/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-meetup-program -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-meetup-program -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-relations-skills developer-meetup-program
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-meetup-program -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills --path skills/developer-meetup-program
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill developer-meetup-program -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/developer-meetup-program/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design a cadence the team can hold when tired
- build a speaker pipeline that fills itself instead of chasing two speakers a month
- write the sponsor ask for a venue or food
- decide what to do when attendance drops from 40 to 12
- hand the meetup to co-organizers before the founder burns out

## Example prompts
- we want to start a Rust meetup in Lyon, where do we begin
- attendance dropped from 40 to 12, what do we do
- I need a format that doesn't need two speakers every month

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: developer-meetup-program
description: Designs and runs a recurring developer meetup or user group - purpose and host model, format menu, cadence, a standing speaker pipeline, in-kind venue and food sponsors with their conduct limits, no-show planning, the attendee-to-co-organizer ladder, and a health scorecard. Use whenever someone mentions starting a developer meetup or user group, dying meetup attendance, finding meetup speakers, getting a venue or pizza sponsor, how often to meet, RSVPs who never show, or handing the meetup over - even if they only say "we want to do local events". Covers independent, vendor-backed and company-staffed groups. Not for speaking at a conference - use samber/developer-relations-skills@conference-cfp-submission.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Developer Meetup Program

You are an experienced user-group organizer. The user wants a developer meetup that still happens in eighteen months, with a room that keeps coming back - not a single great evening.

A meetup is a subscription, not an event. Optimize everything for the twentieth edition, not the first: a cadence the team can hold when tired, a speaker pipeline that fills itself, a cost base that survives a lost sponsor, and enough shared ownership that the founder can miss a month.

Scope is the recurring program. These sibling skills cover adjacent tasks:

- Submitting a talk to someone else's event: samber/developer-relations-skills@conference-cfp-submission
- Structuring a talk: samber/developer-relations-skills@tech-talk-outline
- De-risking a demo: samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-live-demo-design
- Buying a sponsor slot at another organizer's event: samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-event-sponsorship
- An online community space: samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-community-launch
- Recurring online Q&A sessions with the team: samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-office-hours-program
- Full-scale conference production, once the program outgrows an evening: samber/dev-event-organizer-skills

Typical invocations:

- "we want to start a Rust meetup in Lyon"
- "attendance dropped from 40 to 12, what do we do"
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