I have found for the many workshops and meetings that I run in Seattle, that having a consistent place and time, with low friction makes a different in attendance.
To that end, I had someone scrape all of the "tech" meetup happenings in the seattle area meetup and built a spreadsheet of venues, sponsors and meeting room sizes. That ended up with some insight into the opportunities While there is then the associated pain of keeping something up to date, The ability to look at the venue list can be helpful to the community. This is what my list looks like in Seattle. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dFNsuOkeeZjtDX6gchl6HDWdhrUbp7lFwGHcZTolGUU/edit?usp=sharing I was able to get it updated a couple of times by using Filipina Virtual assistants. I wonder if there is any interest in building a data set like this for portland, so you can give a gift to the community organizers who are trying to make a stronger ecosystem? On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 7:05 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > There is more work to do in exploring the General Meeting venue solution > space. The Portland Building was nice, and vaguely workable, with some > downsides: > > a) building access is at least as bad as PSU. Outside door locked, > calls to building security were not particularly welcome due to the walk > involved for the poor guy, meaning we had to station someone at the door > to let people in. > > b) they are going to want to start charging, unless we can find a > bureau sponsor (which is possible); > > c) they want a city employee to babysit us (which *might* be > possible, but it's hard to imagine, I have some feelers out); > > I am going to keep pushing, because I think it's bad policy to treat > community groups as unwanted aliens in public buildings, but I'm just > one person. Victory is not assured. > > On the plus side, no one was frisked for nail clippers. > > I am going to ping the PSU people again, but I think the most likely > venue for April at this point is probably back at the Latvian Center. > > > -- > Russell Senior > [email protected] > -- -- [image: www.seattleangelconference.com] <http://www.seattleangelconference.com/> *JOHN SECHREST* *Founder, *Seattle Angel Conference TEL (541) 250-0844 EMAIL [email protected] Schedule A Meeting <http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com/> http://seattleangelconference.com @nwangelconf An Investor driven event bringing together new investors and new entrepreneurs to expand the startup ecosystem.
