Talk: Massachusetts, USA

Meetup

Meetup has widespread recognition. Perhaps the FSF could back a Massachusetts-based Meetup group for GNU or free software in general? Based on its success, the FSF could back other locales... I've been considering starting up a Boston-area GNU/Linux Meetup group (I'm surprised there isn't one yet!), but I've never organized something so big before. I wouldn't mind having some direction and/or guidance in this arena. For instance, where could I host something like this...? I don't have large venues at my disposal.

So far, according to Meetup, 112 people are interested in a Boston-area GNU/Linux Meetup. http://linux.meetup.com/cities/us/ma/boston/

If Meetup could be persuaded to renaming its "Linux" topic to "GNU/Linux", then that could raise awareness... In the very least, the FSF could use Meetup as a collaboration tool to eventually garner more support that would otherwise not exist in such a direct way. MySQL AB utilizes Meetup for their own grassroots efforts, and so far it seems to have worked out quite well for them.

cparker 20:04, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

Posting for wikipedia events here?

Is it alright to post about wikipedia meetups on these pages? I was just discussing alternative to meetup for WPans with Matt Lee... metasj 23:45, 24 March 2009 (EDT)