Despite the cost overhead of Meetup, it is definitely worth investigating. Our local Python group started using meetup last year and it gave us a huge boost in exposure and has brought in quite a few new people who didn't know that we existed. To me, the exposure to the (literally) thousands of people in your area who might find OSM interesting is very valuable when you are trying to get a group started. Maybe there is a local company who would be willing to help with sponsoring the meetup costs. Maybe the local Chamber of Commerce would see the value in it?
David. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>wrote: > >> However the cost is expensive for individuals to start a Meetup group. > > > I recommend either crowd funding a meetup group or getting a local company > to sponsor. Like Ian said, at OSM US we've spent quite some cycles on how > we could support local communities US-wide with paying meetup.com fees > but no matter how you turn it you're looking at a non-neglectible > administrative overhead to manage this plus the very real possibility of > paying for meetup groups that have gone inactive. Funding locally is the > most organic and effective approach. > > Funding locally is also a great opportunity to create an active trust of > meetup hosts or involve a local company in OSM :-) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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