[chiglug] "Windy City Linux Users Group" on meetup.com

[sheila miguez]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> The alternative is to network enough to find several like-minded people
> about your technology of choice, and form a user group. This is how
> it's been done forever: meetup.com isn't necessary. In fact, I think
> it's a distraction.
>

I was anti-meetup for user groups a few years back. I am not now, and I
think it's important to have a meetup group. I have one for
ChicagoPythonistas and the hackerspace as one as well.

Word of mouth gets a group fewer people, and also has a selection bias for
people who know people -- which means you won't get people who don't
already know python (in my case) or are novice users, and so on.

I have mixed feelings about meetup. but for right now I want to use it
because it reaches a wider population of people, especially people who are
familiar with the concept of user groups.

I'm willing to chip in to pay for a meetup group for ChicagoLUG.



-- 
shekay at pobox.com
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