There is so much activity going on right now on the SharePoint Community Calendar that it’s almost incomprehensible. This week is 2010 Launch Week with hundreds of events planned for this Wednesday. The week ends with SharePoint Saturday DC where over 1300 people are registered. Kind of crazy…

With all this going on, there’s no reason for you not to consider putting your own SharePoint event together for later this year. There are dozens of speakers willing to show up and help you out. What stops most people is fear of not knowing how to get started.

I was reminded of this when I saw Joy’s article this morning, “SharePoint Saturdays: Hosting Ideas“. This is a very well written writeup, overview and checklist for what you might think about when putting together a SharePoint event.

If you’re willing to dive in and create your own event, you’ll have lots of help along the way. Just start talking about it, and it seems to start taking shape.

Here’s some articles to get you started:

• SharePoint Saturdays: Hosting Ideas by Joy Earles
• Organizing a SharePoint Event: What You Need To Know by The SharePoint Hillbilly
• Notes on Running a SharePoint Live Online Event by Mark Miller

The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event

• The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: Set Up for SPSEMEA
• The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: Opening the Doors at SPSEMEA
• The Anatomy of a SharePoint Event: SPSEMEA Post Mortem

Other resources you might find handy:

• EventBrite to manage registration
• SharePoint Saturday and Michael Lotter