_______________________________________________Hey all - as a followup to the informal meetup we had at the end of august, this seems like something we could probably benefit a lot from doing more regularly. Some things that came up or stuff:
- When planning events, no matter how small/informal, we should probably be starting a few weeks in advance, where there's at least a week or two to discuss/finalise what we're doing, and another week between then and the thing itself to ensure the plan has time to, well, actually reach everyone.
- This went reasonably well for the first part, the second less so, but bear in mind too that something actually happening at all is still a major success regardless so we shouldn't be getting too tripped up on small parts that don't work as well.
- We'll never find a time everyone's going to make it, but that's probably fine, because:
- This is likely something we should be doing on a monthly or bi-monthly basis, or quarterly, or whatever, depending on interest.
So basic proposal:
We should do these regularly, just a general dinner/drinks/awkward loitering/whatever floats your goat (the point is the options are there for all of us) meetup where we talk and catch up on things and maybe hatch diabolical plans for other things. We should set a particular time for them, say, 6pm on the third wednesday of every other month, and stick to whatever schedule we come up with unless we really need to change it for some reason, so that it's predictable and can be planned around. We should have a general area for them (such as sticking to pearl street, if that works for people) and move the venue we actually use around there unless/until we find something that's just perfect. We should make a thing for it on Meetup, and anyone using social media etc should advertise it there so we can reach a potentially wider audience and bring in users from the wider editing, reading, and GLAM/whatever communities.
Thoughts, issues, recommendations?
-I
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