Martin, I’m involved with a couple of MeetUp groups. My experience is similar to yours regarding the lack of attendance even when people confirm they are coming.
Bill Vlahos > On Aug 9, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Martin Koob <mk...@rogers.com> wrote: > > I set up a meet-up group page in Toronto > > http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Toronto-Area-LiveCode-Users-Group/members/ > > I was hoping to specifically focus on LiveCode so included that in the name. > > > You also set a headline for the group. I used the following to hilite the > multi platform capabilities. > > "LiveCode: write once, deploy on iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, > Server" > > I think if you are trying to appeal to new programmers they may not know > that 'High level' means. It may actually sound more difficult, i.e. you > are working at a high level. > > Maybe in the group headline you can explain that high level languages are > easier to use. > > "Coding doesn't need to be scary, high level languages have all of the power > to do what you want done with less of the complexity. If you have an idea > for an app and want to get started right away join this meet-up. > > I am not sure how much of that will fit in the headline. > > With the Toronto LiveCode meet up group members keep joining, it is up to 35 > now. However I have not had much luck getting people to come out to a meet > up. > > Martin > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-ish-naming-a-MeetUp-group-tp4694690p4694725.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
