This is an excellent suggestion.
Now, does anyone have any ideas for what advice I could give about that? :-)
Based on the suggestions offered here so far, version 4 of the document (not yet public) contains the following:
...How to attract new members
Sooner or later, you may wish to find new members. If you have been posting meetup notices on Less Wrong, any regular readers with an interest in showing up have probably already done so. Still, there may be readers who have seen the meetup notices or who might even be subscribed to your mailing list, but haven’t been motivated enough to attend. You can try to make them more interested by documenting how much fun you’r
How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup is a guide that I've been working on, based on lukeprog's instructions, for the last week and a half. As it says in the beginning:
Here's the table of contents:
This is a draft version, so feedback would be most welcome, particularly on things like:
The link above will take you to a Google Docs copy of the document, with the ability to add comments to the draft. Feel free to comment on the guide either as traditional LW comments or by attaching comments to the document itself: both are fine.
EDIT: Here's the most recent version, though without the commenting ability.
EDIT2: The most recent version as of April 11th, with commenting enabled.
EDIT3: First non-draft version; see also this thread.