Simon's comment makes me realize that the central argument for meetup.comhasn't been mentioned. meetup.com covers the bases for core organizing (events + mailing lists) but most importantly, it provides incredible visibility. Esp. in the US, people actively browse meetup for stuff they're interested in. Being on meetup.com means having better chances to attract like minded folks than organizing through most other channels.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > Just a couple of observations from the other side of the Atlantic: > - please make it easy to contact your group without having to go through a > sign up procedure with yet another service. Not everybody is interested in > joining permamently and making a meetup account mandatory just means you > wont get casual visitors that might be interesting. > - while by far not the oldest OSM local group the Zurich group just had > its 49th meeting on Monday and up to now we're not outstripped the > capabilities of the wiki, mailing list and now and then a doodle for > special events. > > Simon > > Ps: background: l was in San Diego for 2 weeks in September and naturally > would have liked to meet up with a couple of local mappers and /or the > Southern California group, but see above. > > -- > Written with a pen on a Galaxy Note 10. I > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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