On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib!
<abigor(a)forgotten-beauty.com> wrote:
Participation announcements for Wiki meet-up
I'm sure there is a Wiki meet-up every weekend around the globe,
posting
this information to this list will probably spam. People
interested in
joining wiki meet-ups would find it in a local site and this list
would
probably reach to much people. Or there should be more information
like
Wiki meet-ups bigger than X people or something like that.
I agree. Meetups, other than Wikimania, should be announced on local
lists. I have no interest in meetups that are happening outside the UK
since there is no chance I'll be attending them (if I know I'm going
to be in another country and would like to know if there will be
meetups there while I'm there, I will subscribe the the relevant local
list, as I have done in the past).
A summary, once a month or so, of the upcoming meetups could work
well. I believe that there's a sufficient number of meet-ups that
there should be something nearby to a significant fraction of the
audience of the announce list; if not, then a note at the end saying
"Can't see a meetup near you? Organize one!" might change that over
time.
It's probably something best appended to other information, though.
E.g. have a headline of "first meetup in [Country X] planned", or
coverage of a big in-person event, and then append a list of meetups
after the main story.
Having said that: there's lots of other things that the announce list
is better suited for than this.
Mike Peel
P.S. I'm looking forward to the day when we can have geolocated
sitenotices for advertising meetups etc...