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• Servicenow Meetups
  • Getting Started
• Prerequisites
• Start/Join your local group
• Administration of Group
  • Adding questions
  • Welcome Message
  • Handling non-devs

Servicenow Meetups

This repo is to hold assets to share for other meetups for the same purpose in other locations.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of this repo and how to assist/host a meetup in your area.

Prerequisites

• Have a community account
• Have a Personal Developer Instance request it here

Start/Join your local group

• Look here
• Read this

If no group was found and you'd like to be host, fill this out.

Administration of Group

Adding questions

From Meetup.com navigate to;

Group tools -> Settings -> Your members -> Add Questions

1. What's your primary objective for joining this group?
2. How many years of ServiceNow development experience do you have?
3. What's the coolest thing you've built in ServiceNow?
4. Anything else interesting the group should know about you?

Welcome Message

This is an example;

Thanks for joining.  Glad to have you.  Make sure to RSVP to events.  If you have any ideas on what you'd like to see here let me know.
Other things to do;
* Join us on sndevs.slack.com #minneapolis
*  *  invite url: snowslack.heroku.com

Handling non-devs

1. There’s a time and a place, maybe even at some meetups, but I don’t think the SN Dev meetups are the time/place
2. If someone does get in touch with a recruiter at a meetup, gets a new job, I don’t want there to be negative pressure from employers about these meetups
3. I completely acknowledge that there are some positives that could come from having a recruiter present if it isn’t brazen, but I’m not sure if that’s worth the risk to the meetup

I don’t think you’ll ever completely avoid it, but I’d say that shying away from it as a default is probably the right thing Re: non-sn-devs, as long as they aren’t the crazy “I was stationed in Istanbul” guy, I think it can be completely ok as long as you set the expectation about what the meetups are.

Sometimes there are developers that attended that didn’t know what ServiceNow was. This isnot the only goal of these meetups but I also look at that as a successful outcome.