[Talk-ca] Meetup group

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Im just about to get 'OSM Canada' as a meetup group, i'll pay for a
> year of service.
> Do you want to be an admin?
>
> OSM Vancouver Island Meetup group has had too few meetups to warrent
> its own group again for a year. Ideally 1 meetup /week needs to happen
> to warrant a separate group.

Hi all from here too.

No thank you for me Sam.  I'm admin-ing meetups in Kitchener-Waterloo,
Toronto and Columbus Ohio.  Reminds me that I should schedule
something.

As a side note, all of the meetup.com tools that I am aware of work in
a local area, like within 25 miles of a location.  I don't believe
that a single, catchall group will be effective.  For example:
a) you won't show up in search from other areas,
b) you won't be cross-promoted to similar meetups outside your area,
c) even members who do find you may lose interest if there is no local group.

I suggest that this list, talk-ca is one ideal venue to advise
Canadian mappers of upcoming events.

The key to using meetup effectively, as far as I can tell, is to
a) be local
b) schedule events

Happy New Year everybody,
Richard