[GRLUG] The Geek Group Has a New Lab

[Bob Kline]

Just an observation.  We had 7 at the meet
yesterday.  Given the way the tables were
arranged, there were conversations at both
end of the gathering, and sometimes in the
middle.

No problem, but at some number of people
the conversations break down in to smaller
groups.  Unless you're having a lecture, I
doubt a bigger turnout adds much.  Yes,
people can choose were to sit - to a point -
to join in to a conversation of interest, and
maybe bigger numbers can add in that way.

But if even at 7 people there cab be as many
as 3 conversations - and there were yesterday -
so numbers are not necessarily the measure of
what people get out of the gatherings. Interesting
conversations is, and there seem to be plenty
of those whether there are 3, 7, or, presumably, 20,
present.

    -- Bob


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 15:33 +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I just got an email from Meetup saying that there were 179 people in
> >> the Grand Rapids area, waiting for a group with the properties I'd
> >> listed, and that if I finished setting up the group, Meetup would send
> >> the invite.
> >> That's a pretty large mass-mailing. You'd think those folks would have
> >> gone to BarcampGR...
> >
> > Do they explain what their matching mechanism is?  Having diddled around
> > looking at groups on Meetup, personally, I smell the now very familiar
> > stink of social-networking total-BS.
>
> I couldn't handle a meeting of 179 people. I couldn't manage one of
> even 79 people. However, the runoff of even 10% of that number would
> be a good visit.
>
> >
> >> I'll probably poke through that paywall, but not before the Saturday
> >> Social can comfortably move over towards the Geek Group location.
> >
> > Care to make a wager that poking the paywall has a net-zero impact on
> > attendance over a three month period?
>
> I wouldn't wager either way. What's irritating is that I hear so much
> advocacy for announcing via Meetup.com, but then there's a paywall for
> even the most basic-level service. I don't like it, but it seems to be
> to meetups what Facebook is to personal networking and what LinkedIn
> is to professional networking.
>
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