On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 17/05/2011 09:40, Michael Peel wrote: > > Just to note: WMUK doesn't own the geonotices; any admin can change them > in the usual Wiki fashion. ;-) > > > > Also: to be honest, it's a little difficult to see how WMUK can give much > support to meetups. They're volunteer-led, advertised on-wiki, and don't > really need anything to support them to make them successful as far as I can > see. The London wikimeets have never asked for anything from WMUK (despite > me prompting them to occasionally ;-) ). There are things WMUK could > provide: for example, room hire (but most wikimeets are in a pub or cafe, > without room hire costs), transportation costs for a speaker (but most > wikimeets don't have speakers), internet access costs (but I know the London > wikimeet pointedly avoids having internet access) or Wikipedia posters (not > too useful in a pub, though?). I'd love to see us supporting the > establishment of many more wikimeets, but we need some input in to how we > could usefully do that. > Advance publicity and reporting are of course the basics. But if you > look around the world, or listen to participants, there is the chance of > tying meetups into other things (e.g. photography initiatives ...) to > have some variety and purpose. > > In DC, we usually have an early afternoon activity before the Meetup at a resturaunt early evening, before some people retreat to a bar for Drinks (we don't really have the pub atmosphere in the states). For example, last Summer, we had one meetup where we did a guided tour of the Air and Space Museum, talked to some GLAM people about a collaboration, and then went to a Pizza joint to hang out and chat. Another recent one, included a photo scavenger hunt in the morning, a meeting at a library discussing the structure of the chapter and then a trip to a resteraunt. Almost all of these events had some users leaving and arriving part way through. I know New York does similar structure for events. It seems have something exclusive tied into the meetup (such as a tour or event) sometimes draws more people. Alex Stinson
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