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Hi Ed<br>
<br>
Sounds like chicken and egg again.. I'd urge you to set something up
:-)<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
On 6/2/2011 11:05 AM, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>If you set up a group on meetup.com
you'd be surprised how many people <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>join and start to get interested
once you have a group meeting monthly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a fee to set up a group on Meetup.
Someone had such a group in Tampa, and held a mapping party
that introduced me to OSM. That was the only mapping party
here since I became aware of OSM. The organizer let the
membership lapse and looked for someone else to take it over.
I wasn’t willing to pay $72 every six months, and apparently
no one else was, either. I have never been very successful at
enrolling people into new activities, although I am pretty
good at supporting a group and keeping it on track if someone
else leads it. Meaning, among other things, that if we had an
active group here and found Meetup useful for keeping it
going, I’d be willing to pay the Meetup cost.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ed Hillsman<o:p></o:p></p>
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