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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
