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If you want more people to show up and you don't mind if they're just random folks interested in rationality but not familiar with less wrong, you could try making a meetup.com group to advertise your meetups there–there seem to be a fair number of people who browse that site looking for meetups to attend.
Thanks for recommending this site. I found a quantified self meetup that looks interesting in itself and may possibly be a place to recruit for our fledgling rationality meetups in brussels
Good idea. Has anyone tried it?
I think I'll try that anyways.
We tried it recently in Ottawa and it approximately doubled the size of our local network. Only a few people have actually come out to the single meetup we've held since, but I'd say it was worth doing.
Local universities and colleges are a fertile ground for people interested in both rational decision making and existential risks. Posting a note in a place like the UBC SUB is bound to net you a few hits. To make it easier for people to check out your website, use a 2D barcode they can scan with their cell camera. Make sure the front page of the site has a mobile-friendly version and contains a perfect elevator pitch for what you want to convey.
Good idea with the universities.
So do you think individual meetups should maintain a website? I think a mailing list is enough, but would like to hear more arguments.
My guess is that there should be a well-maintained blog of the "local chapter of LW" and a quality landing page. Mailing list is so 1980s.
I wonder if LW could do something about that. It might be useful to pool work between meetups so that we don't all have to maintain our own stuff.
like I'm thinking $location.lesswrong.com would be the site for a meetup at $location. Hosting and back-end stuff would be managed centrally with lesswrong.
Some of the NYC meetup leaders have went to other meetup.com groups scouting for potential members, tactics, and crowds to draw from.
It worked well, if I recall correctly? Not sure though.