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At the London meetup today there was talk around having a register of skills that LW people were available to help with, and I was reminded of freemasonry on a general level.
The thing about freemasonry is that as far as I can see, it works. That is, members seem to be more successful than non-members from similar backgrounds (though I would be very pleased to see rigorous evidence on the subject). So it seems to me that forming a freemason-like organization (and presumably tweaking any obvious problems, but defaulting to their ruleset since it's been successful in practice) would be an effective way to help our members achieve their goals.
(I guess the obvious counterproposal is: why don't we just all join the existing freemasons rather than doing work to duplicate them?)
I like this idea a lot. In most real-life communities, members help each other out and prosper. This is one of the prime reasons why people keep going to church, for instance.
But for that the LW meetups suffice. They could benefit from some more structure or cross support.
How about a Grand Meetup? Or was there one?
I would reccomend segmenting it from LW a bit.
With 'it' you mean the (grand) meetup(s). Or?