https://github.com/stephlocke/awesome-organiser-resources
A list of awesome resources for (tech) event organisers
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A list of awesome resources for (tech) event organisers
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/stephlocke/awesome-organiser-resources
- Owner: stephlocke
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2018-02-02T16:16:22.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-11-12T03:02:10.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-28T12:08:24.096Z (about 2 months ago)
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- Stars: 33
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
# Awesome event organiser resources :sparkles:
[](https://awesome.re)
A list of awesome resources for (tech) event organisers to help grow and improve (tech) communities
- [Platforms](#platforms)
- [Marketing](#marketing)
- [Organising conferences](#organising-conferences)
- [Organising meetups](#organising-meetups)
- [Ensuring safe and diverse events](#ensuring-safe-and-diverse-events)
## Platforms
- [Meetup.com](//meetup.com) One of the most common events platforms today. Meetup has an [API](https://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/) with various (community-contributed) [client libraries](https://github.com/meetup/api/blob/master/clients.md).
- [Sessionize.com](//sessionize.com) A platform for hosting call for speakers / call for papers
- [Joind.in](//joind.in) Call for papers and feedback platform
- [Papercall.io](//papercall.io) Call for papers platform
- [Attending.io](//attending.io/) A great event platform for free events
- [Picatic](//picatic.com) An easy-to-use event registration platform for free and paid events with a strong API for developers
## Marketing
- [20 Creative Event Promotion Ideas to Increase Attendance](//www.eventbrite.com/blog/creative-event-promotion-ideas-ds00/) Some useful tips for marketing your events
- [15 Social Media Tactics To Increase Your Event Exposure](https://blog.picatic.com/15-social-media-tactics-increase-event-marketing-exposure/) How to use social media to gain more ticket sales
## Organising conferences
- [Less obvious conference list](//github.com/mxsasha/lessobviouschecklist) A great checklist of things you should consider when running a conference
- [How to tackle the childcare–conference conundrum](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/01/1803153115)
- [How to make your conference perfect?](https://blog.softwaremill.com/how-to-make-your-conference-perfect-a4f0e7f441c5)
- [Ultimate Event Venue Checklist for Event Planners](https://blog.picatic.com/event-venue-checklist/) An excellent checklist for locking in the perfect venue for your conference
- [How to have great inclusive audio at your event](https://github.com/njt/event-audio)
## Organising meetups
- [RLadies Starter Kit](//github.com/rladies/starter-kit) A brilliant example of growing distributed groups under the same banner
## Ensuring safe and diverse events
- [Awesome Diversity List](//github.com/folkswhocode/awesome-diversity) Extra resources around diversity at events but but also in tech
- [Global Diversity CFP Day](//www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/) A global initiative to encourage new speakers by hosting workshops around the world
- [NumFOCUS DISCOVER Cookbook](https://github.com/numfocus/DISCOVER-Cookbook) A guide for organizing more diverse and inclusive events and conferences, produced by the NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Program.
- [Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance](http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003903)
- [Ten tips for getting more women speakers](https://geekfeminism.org/2009/08/11/ten-tips-for-getting-more-women-speaker/)
- [How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference](https://geekfeminism.org/2012/05/21/how-i-got-50-women-speakers-at-my-tech-conference/) Experience of encouraging submissions from women.