zeldathequark comments on Helsinki meetup Saturday 9.4 (cancelled) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: zeldathequark 05 April 2011 01:43:20PM *  4 points [-]

Aside: May I suggest that all "meetup" posts be removed to their own thread (or perhaps a calendar on a separate portion of the site) so that our RSS feeds aren't littered with irrelevant meeting appointments?

Most of us aren't going to be able to make more than one meetup every few months, whether because the locations or times are inconvenient. With the plethora of meetup posts then, few, if any, will be relevant to most of us,

Comment author: pjeby 05 April 2011 03:45:28PM 2 points [-]

May I suggest that all "meetup" posts be removed to their own thread (or perhaps a calendar on a separate portion of the site) so that our RSS feeds aren't littered with irrelevant meeting appointments?

Perhaps a wiki page for each area with a regular meetup would be appropriate - then any changes to the page would be advertised via "Recent Wiki Edits". (Alternately, a Google Calendar widget could be embedded in the page with a minor template change.)

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 05 April 2011 04:58:41PM *  0 points [-]

I made a page for Helsinki meetups in the wiki: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Helsinki_meetup_group

People who are interested in attending can subscribe to the Atom feed with a RSS reader to receive updates.

That is, assuming this actually was a good idea and will get used for further meetup coordination.

Comment author: pjeby 06 April 2011 12:10:11AM 0 points [-]

Well, it's resulted in it showing on the page now. We might want to ask the site admins to put a "Meetups" link in the site's top-level menu, going to a wiki (category?) page listing the various meetups' location pages. There are certainly enough meetups happening for that to make sense.

Actually, somebody doing a monthly "Meetups" thread, analagous to the monthly quotes thread, would probably also be a good idea.

Of course, this entire discussion probably belongs on one of the Improving Less Wrong threads, but I'm not sure how to find them...