[Talk-ca] Meetup group

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool,
Thanks,
I'll set one up for Across Canada Trails project instead.
I'll just leave the OSM Vancouver Island Mappers group alone, maybe someone
else would want to pick up the group as there is currently 13 members in it.

Happy New year,
Sam



On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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