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I have been thinking about a Seattle meet up for a while, as I think I have seen a few others here from the area. I recall seeing another poster say that they were from the University of Washington. (I'm an undergrad there)
I had a few questions: First off, I don't have enough karma to create a top-level post. Is the discussion board appropriate or can we figure out something for a top-level?
I might recall an old thread on "how to run a Lesswrong meetup" but I can't find it---did this exist?
What have been your favorite low-preparation activities and discussions?
Edit: Ok, I'm going to check up on booking a classroom at the UW, unless somebody has an appropriate restaurant they would recommend. Once I get everything figured out I'll make a post, but I'm thinking Saturday or Sunday afternoon before Valentine's day.
Upvoted to help you get to that karma level.
Maybe that was me? Even better if it wasn't!
I would definitely be interested in a meetup. As for a low-preparation (but still likely to be useful) discussion topic: day-to-day productivity / fighting akrasia.
YES YES YES! Do it! I predict it will be very well attended.
Seattle has the most LW readers of any city in the world without a meet-up!
Visits to LW the past year / Meetup
11000+ Visitors
10000+ Visitors
9000+ Visitors
8000+ Visitors
7000+ Visitors
6000+ Visitors
5000+ Visitors
4000+ Visitors
EDIT: Added 13-50, these are total yearly visitors, not hits
All these cities had at least 500 unique visitors the last month. I would be confident starting a meetup anywhere with over 5000 visitors / year... all of which have at least half the readership of cities that already support meetups now. Other cities that look promising but are just on the borderline are Oslo, Hong Kong, and Princeton.
Any chance of getting an updated list like this?
Wow, I had no idea London was LessWrong central! Hmm, will soon be time to post a reminder for the March 6 meetup at 14:00 in the Shakespeare's Head...
What is the range in size for meetups?
I'm just wondering what to expect when looking for locations.
The last London one was about 16 people - but I'm told that may have been an anomaly... we'll see.
The first few meetup ran in Melbourne attracted 8 and then 12 people IIRC with just passive LW meetup notices a week or two in advance. I'd expect you to get around 6 people to show up that aren't you with perhaps as many as 10.
Go Oxford; probably the highest ratio of meetups to readers!
Toronto is listed twice under 7,000+ visitors... this is clearly an error, but what is not clear is whether there are 7,000 or 14,000 aspiring rationalists in town.
I'd love a TO meetup but I'm too much of an introvert to organize a social gathering. If anyone steps up to the plate, let me know.
That was a bug in the list. Toronto had only 7000 visitors to LW last year. However, Vancouver was actually listed twice on purpose because it was in analytics twice. I assumed at the time that one was Vancouver, BC and the other was some other major world city named Vancouver... but now I'm not so sure there is another city named Vancouver that could credibly have had ~5,000 visitors as well. So that bug is by design but I'm not sure what that's all about.
Anyway, Canada is still well represented on LW and Toronto is easily the best city to start Canada's first LW meetup. If you won't start it yourself, you should at least bring this up a bunch and goad someone else into doing it. Similarly sized cities like Pittsburgh, Sunnyvale, and Cambridge have all had meetup before.
There's a city north of Portland called Vancouver. Pop: 161k+
Google Maps says the one north of Portland is Vancouver, BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington
Seems hard to believe it had that many visitors, though.
This is a valid point. Also, the city isn't really populated by very... rational people.
Hmmm - looks like I should start up a Sydney meetup when I go back next year. Or perhaps somebody else will start one up for me and I can transition smoothly ;)
I'm down for a meetup. I'm a 25 year old programming in Seattle. I think you're thinking of user InquilineKea. I met up with him once.
Searching for 'seattle' in the LW search indicates that there are quite a few seattlites around here.
If you post in the discussion board and add a note asking it to me moved to the Main site then a friendly mod will move it there fairly quickly.