Our guest today is Oleg Podsechin. A developer, an entrepreneur, a founder of meetups in Moscow, Helsinki and St. Petersburg.

We talk about challenges of running a meetup, Oleg’s background, must-read books and more.

If you complete the challenge from Oleg, you'll have a chance to get a free ticket!

Guest:Oleg Podsechin - https://twitter.com/olegpodsechin

Resources:

Meetabit – a platform for meetups https://meetabit.com/MoscowJS http://moscowjs.ru/HelsinkiJS https://meetabit.com/communities/2PiterJS https://meetabit.com/communities/1Helsinki Meta Meetup https://meetabit.com/communities/5

Books:

Douglas Crockford "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.doAsh Maurya "Running Lean" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13078769-running-lean

The challenge:

CommunityJS is a list of JS and front end developer communities aroundthe world. To take part in the challenge, go tohttps://github.com/CommunityJS/CommunityJSData and create a pullrequest with as many new communities as you can find that aren'talready listed in the main repo or other pull requests. Then, tweetout a link to your PR @frontend_union. The winner will be whoevercreates a PR with the most number of new communities by August 9th.