sixes_and_sevens comments on Starting a LW meet-up is easy. - Less Wrong

39 Post author: AnnaSalamon 01 February 2011 04:05AM

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Comment author: prase 01 February 2011 12:56:18PM 2 points [-]

Most major cities, and many minor ones, have some LW-ers.

I'd be interested in details. Does it hold only inside the US? Are there some statistics which can be used to estimate the chance of at least one person coming to such a meeting?

If the LW users could specify their coordinates in their profile, and that info be automatically processed to create a world map with some reasonable resolution telling the number of LWers in a given location (say, 100x100 km grid or so), that would be a useful application.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 01 February 2011 02:31:52PM 2 points [-]

Although I'm not sure geotagging the LW readership is the best solution to the problem, some sort of reassurance that there actually are other people in a given location who'd attend would probably help grease the wheels a bit.