[SoCoSA/discuss] www.meetup.com revisited.

[Kevan Benson]

It seems like before we had attendance problems, we had problems finding 
speakers, which this may or may not have helped with.  After we then 
when we had speakers, then attendance started dropping.  It may have 
helped some, and wouldn't have hurt, so opportunity lost.  It wouldn't 
hurt to set it up for the future, but since the group is sort of in 
transition, accurately describing it may be problematic.


On 03/14/2010 05:40 PM, Jim Oser wrote:
> Thank you Eric and the rest of the board for running this group as
> long as you have. I know running a group is hard work and that one
> hardly ever gets thanked.
>
> I guess it is to late to reiterate the idea that I posted to the
> group last year, since it looks like SoCoSA has folded.
>
> I posted this suggestion last year that SoCoSA advertise on
> www.meetup.com
>
> In all fairness, just posting on www.meetup.com, will not guarantee
> success. Since that time, the Sebastopol ruby group that advertises
> on www.meetup.com has folded. Maybe meeting so far away from 101 was
> not a good idea for SoCoSA or for the Sebastopol ruby/rails group.
>
> On the other hand, the East Bay ruby/rails meetup group that meets at
> UC Berkeley, the SF ruby/rails meetup group that meets at different
> companies in SF, and the Silicon Valley ruby/rails group that last
> week met at LinkedIn in Mountain View are all going gangbusters.
>
> I will admit that there are more people who live in those areas than
> in Sonoma County, but certainly people, who are already using meetup
> are finding new groups to join all the time.
>
> If one goes to www.meetup.com and searches on "Santa Rosa" or on
> "Sebastopol", one will find both technical and nontechnical meetups
> in those communities. Of course, searching on "Linux" or "Windows"
> will bring up more technical groups.
>
> It also seems that groups are now advertising on linkedin now. For
> instance, there is a Marin group, that started to meet virtually, and
> is now meeting face to face once a month.
>
> The times are changing.

-- 
Kevan Benson
SoCoSA.org