So You’ve Decided to Start Maker Community

YAY! We’re excited to have people like you join our growing community and want to help you get your chapter launched as quickly and painlessly as possible. If our experience is any indication, your first major event will galvanize and inspire the Maker community in your area and create momentum for subsequent events, so it’s crucial to start things off on the right foot!

To help you get started, we’ve created an open-source kit for starting Maker Community chapter in your city.

Copy our model (fork & contribute). Or fork and make it completely different. We don’t mind if you get creative!

Here’s all of what needs to be done to start a Maker Community. You may of course adapt this list to meet your chapter’s needs.

PART 1

If you need, find some co-organizers to help with organization and planning and select leads(eg. Social media head, PR head etc, etc)

Decide the namespace of your chapter (e.g. mumbai.makercommunity.in or IITB.makercommunity.in, same with email addresses).

Fill out the initial Maker Community chapter interest here to get your namespace setup for your chapter domain and email.

Once you have received a confirmation that the the initial Maker Community request form was approved and setup, continue on:

PART 2

We will provide you website template for maker community website you need to set up digital foot prints.

Sign up for Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and/or any social network that would be effective in your location.

At minimum, try to hold one event a month -- this helps keep interest in Maker community from flagging, and helps people maintain their progress in becoming better makers. You can hold more events with proper support and planning.

Promote the start of the group via various local channels, local Open source communities related groups, and universities.