Some of us might meet earlier and go to Beaver Lake if it is not too rainy. Feel free to come as early as 4pm. Just text me when you are heading over: 514 582 1052.

I'm in Saint-Etienne. I can make it to Lyon, but as I'm completely broke, if there are few people and nobody particularly minds taking the train, I'd rather have the meetup in Saint-Etienne.

If you are interested in maximizing the chances of finding people for a meetup, you should remove the trivial inconvenience of requiring people to voice their interest. Just set the time and place unconditionally and see if people show up, collect their contact info, and repeat (even if nobody shows up the first time). If you use something like a cafe as a venue (which is OK if you expect at most a few people, just make sure there are empty seats and no loud music), all you personally have to do is sit there for an hour (you can spend the time reading something if nobody else shows up).

I was an intern at MIRI recently and I would like to start a new LW meetup in my city but as I am still new on LW, I do not have enough karma points. Could you please upvote this comment so that I can get enough karma to post about a meetup? lukeprog suggested I do this. I only need 2 points to post in the discussion part. Thanks to you all