Thanks, Isarra. We had a good time at the last meetup, and I think regular ones would be
great,
and those all sound like good approaches.
Wednesday is my most busy evening, so I'd suggest a bimonthly Monday or Tuesday
meetings.
And yes, some still use "bimonthly" to mean the same thing as
"semimonthly", instead of "every other month",
but that's just illogical and I know you all aren't illogical ;) Or maybe you
disagree, and thus this note.
-Neal
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 04:44:20PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
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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