[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Announcement list is active

[Michael Peel]

On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:08, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib! <abigor at 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...