I’m Leandro, a young tech apasionado running a local JavaScript meetup here in Tucuman. I’m all for JS, Angular and Node so that’s what I preach the most.
I read this and was very interested in starting up something similar, as most of the tech education hereabout is very lacking, old and in some cases expensive
Said that, it makes a lot of sense to start an OTS in Tucuman, and if everything goes well maybe even move towards some of the other provinces here in Argentina, or try to spread the word in nearby countries like Chile.
The idea of OTS is that anyone can start one anywhere and spread the joy of coding and the love of the community. That’s why we’ve documented what worked for us right from the start and published those handbooks on our website. One that might be of particular interest to you (though talking about mailing lists while discourse might be more appropriate now), is the City-Blueprint: how to start OTS in your city.
We, of course, do everything in our power to help and support you. We’ve already started spreading the word about it on our social media channels and hope to get more people into the loop. What helps a lot, in our experience, is to get the word out locally, like take one of our slides and present it at a local meetup and ask for people, who want to join. Once you have a small group together, we’d happily create a meetup group for you, so you can organize a kick-off and workshops with it.
Ben’s already given you some great links to read and advice to get started. Don’t hesistate to ask if you’d like advice for anything, want any clarifications or explanation, or if anything is confusing. We’d even love feedback on how useful our blueprints are for advice so we can keep on improving them.
A tip from Melbourne: bringing some home-cooked baked goods isn’t too hard and always leaves people with at least one great impression coming from any workshop!
Let us know how you’re going / planning and if there’s anything we can do to help.
