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.