Tom is absolutely spot on.
For instance 'girl geek dinners' is a nationally franchised group with meet ups in
most cities.
It ought to be easy to include them.
Most cities have 5 or 6 recognisable 'tech groups'. My own has brrissm social
media. Bristol wireless, bristol cooperative, pervasive media studios.
If we had a 'key person' in a city they should be reaching out to these groups
every time.
So multi-faceted outreach is more important than 'which wiki'.
One 'wiki'. And several other places too facebook, twitter etc. On twitter
let's get everyone using #wmuk on all relevant messages. That way we can all know how
to find this stuff easily.
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:31, James Forrester <james(a)jdforrester.org> wrote:
I think meta is a good place (but then, I did move the
London ones
there after a complaint from a non-enwiki-er, so I'm biased ;-)). I
also think the real value now we have SUL is not in the home but in
the advertising for them.
For most WMUK events I try and list them on Lanyrd which is used by
the tech crowd. It'd be good if we could list them on Facebook as
well. A multi-pronged strategy works best.
It'd be good if we could try hard to work with local geek event
communities as well: for the last Manchester meetup, I told my friend
Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden on Twitter) and he promoted it to the geek
community in Manchester and got it on the Twitter account of some kind
of social media thing in Manchester. Let's do more of this.
We should be getting more non-Wikipedia people involved and attending
events: because in-breeding isn't healthy.
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