This is an overview of some software community user groups.
## Dogfood
Some communities eat their own dogfood, if their application relies on community.
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* Atlassian have three staff focused on community management
* SplashThat - 499/event - 249/month or enterprise 999/month https://splashthat.com/packages
## Somewhere in between
Docker seems to hit a sweet spot between centralized support; but decentralized effort.
Nice ideas from the Docker team http://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/community-management-best-practices-docker?from_action=save
* Community member applies to start a group > Docker staff person creates the meetup.com group. https://www.docker.com/starting-docker-meetup-group
* https://www.docker.com/community Google map of Meet-up groups.
* List of groups on Meetup.com https://www.docker.com/starting-docker-meetup-group
* They list other places you can connect to Docker - Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc
* Potential members can sign up "As a Meetup organizer / As a blogger / As a speaker / As a User / Customer Reference / As a sponsor” https://docker.mobilize.io/entities/3177/registrations
* They use Mobilize.io for organising community contribution. https://docker.mobilize.io/
