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microformats weekly meetup events
Weekly Meetup
The community and adoption have grown considerably over the last year, and news of adoptions (and once in a while challenges) come up frequently enough (at least once a week) that there are no shortage of new topics to discuss on a weekly basis.
By making this a regular (every week) event, people know it is happening regularly and can thus come whichever ones are convenient for them, and not worry about missing any one in particular.
From having informally asked a few folks in the SF area and on IRC it seems Tuesdays at 6:30pm work best, with a rotating venue to keep it interesting.
San Francisco
Suggested SF venues (suggester). Add your opinions and more suggestions:
- Brickhouse Cafe on Brannan st. (Tantek Çelik)
- Naan & Chutney on Haight st. (Eran Globen)
- ...
Past SF venues. We'll reuse these at some point I'm sure.
- Chaat Cafe: 2008-06-24, 2008-07-22
- Crepes on Cole: 2008-07-01
- Westfield Food Court: 2008-07-08
- Chevy's SOMA: 2008-07-29
Other Cities
I encourage folks to organize meetup dinners wherever there is sufficient local critical mass.
There has been some interest expressed in organizing dinners in the following cities. Add yourself and/or contact the people listed and make it happen!
- Austin - irc Atamido
- San Diego - User:EdwardOConnor
- San Jose (South Bay) - User:Kevin_Marks
- London - User:Phae
- Montreal - User:Csarven
Organize a weekly meetup
It's pretty easy to organize a weekly meetup, at a minimum, all you have to do is sometime beforehand (preferably at least a day in advance, like on Monday, for the Tuesday meetup).
In short:
- Pick a location
- Announce it (location at 18:30, Tuesday) on various event sites and notification services.
Details:
- Pick a location
- Ask folks on IRC if they have any suggested locations.
- Consider locations that are easy for a variety of people to transit to.
- Consider a new location to keep it interesting.
- Create event pages
- Create specific event page on microformats.org wiki and put it on the events page.
- Copy that specific event page URL and
- Create a public Pownce event with that wiki URL
- what's happening? microformats weekly meetup dinner!
- where? that location you chose
- 6:30 PM on ....
- Create an upcoming event with wiki + Pownce URLs
- RSVP to the public Pownce event with "attending" and add the upcoming URL.
- Update the microformats wiki event page with Pownce and upcoming URLs
- Update the microformats wiki event page tags with the upcoming: event specific tag
- Announce it
- Tweet the Pownce event
- Add the upcoming event to various groups, add tags to it.
- On the day of the event, post a reminder in the morning (to Twitter etc.), and again an hour before the event.
- Afterwards post a thank you note thanking those that attended.