Some comments:
I would change the order of role descriptions section and the following section on starting a group.
This occurred to me as well. I changed it for the (as-yet non-public) version 4 of the document.
The "retaining members by being a social group" subsection is too long and has several paragraphs on maintaining a healthy discussion structure rather than the social aspect. Maybe splitting the subsection could help?
Hmm. Is three pages really too long? I felt that discussion about how to keep the atmosphere pleasant and keeping the discussion str...
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.