How to hold a meetup
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 16063
- Joined: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:38 pm
- Location: USA, Zone 5b, Koppen Dfa, Elev. 620ft, Walkscore 77
- Contact:
1) Take the initiative and name a place and a date. Then start a thread here with the place, time, and date here.
If you sit around waiting for someone else, it will never happen.
2) Collect names and numbers.
3) A few days before the meetup, confirm whether it's a go or a no-go based on whether a sufficient number of people have RSVP'ed.
Tips:
You can hold a meetup without me. There have been meetups in Seattle, Chicago, and New York City without me.
It is helpful to provide instructions for how to get there in case it's complicated.
If it's a busy place, it helps to bring a sign that says ERE or something. You could also bring the ERE book and wave it around.
Most people tend to bring potluck snacks.
A meetup is a good chance to downsize your book collection...and other collections.
If you have any questions, it's good to write them down in advance. Otherwise, you'll forget to ask them.
If you sit around waiting for someone else, it will never happen.
2) Collect names and numbers.
3) A few days before the meetup, confirm whether it's a go or a no-go based on whether a sufficient number of people have RSVP'ed.
Tips:
You can hold a meetup without me. There have been meetups in Seattle, Chicago, and New York City without me.
It is helpful to provide instructions for how to get there in case it's complicated.
If it's a busy place, it helps to bring a sign that says ERE or something. You could also bring the ERE book and wave it around.
Most people tend to bring potluck snacks.
A meetup is a good chance to downsize your book collection...and other collections.
If you have any questions, it's good to write them down in advance. Otherwise, you'll forget to ask them.
- jennypenny
- Posts: 6861
- Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:20 pm
What do you talk about when you get together? (I mean aside from the general talk about how everyone else spends too much, blah blah blah) I'd like to attend a meet, but I have to admit that I'm not that good in social situations with people I don't know well. And even though I'm comfortable talking about my financial situation on the board, I think I might feel uncomfortable talking about it in person. Is it just nice to spend time with people who see the world the same way?
Maybe I've just shut down socially because I don't really have anything in common with my neighbors here in Stepford. I think I've trained myself to respond with the politically correct answers for a Stepford wife in social situations. I don't really engage people in real conversations anymore because eventually they end up looking at me like I have two heads. Maybe I wouldn't be as uncomfortable as I think with people who are like-minded.
Maybe I've just shut down socially because I don't really have anything in common with my neighbors here in Stepford. I think I've trained myself to respond with the politically correct answers for a Stepford wife in social situations. I don't really engage people in real conversations anymore because eventually they end up looking at me like I have two heads. Maybe I wouldn't be as uncomfortable as I think with people who are like-minded.
I can certainly identify with what jennypenny is saying... My desire to go stems mostly from wanting to meet these interesting people whose ideas I admire.
I'd probably have 1 beer and forgot anything practical I had in mind. Also, I generally learn, organize, plan best alone, oft in front of monitor, book or notepad. But even I should retain some useful stuff. Potluck/book/item exchange alone will probably stimulate enough interesting knowledge exchange to justify...
I'm treating it mostly as an agendaless fun outing with unique people, not going to put any pressure on it to help me reach ERE nirvana.
I'd probably have 1 beer and forgot anything practical I had in mind. Also, I generally learn, organize, plan best alone, oft in front of monitor, book or notepad. But even I should retain some useful stuff. Potluck/book/item exchange alone will probably stimulate enough interesting knowledge exchange to justify...
I'm treating it mostly as an agendaless fun outing with unique people, not going to put any pressure on it to help me reach ERE nirvana.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 16063
- Joined: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:38 pm
- Location: USA, Zone 5b, Koppen Dfa, Elev. 620ft, Walkscore 77
- Contact:
What I find interesting about the meetups is not so much what we talk about which can be anything (although it's usually dominated by the idiosyncracy of the loudest individuals), but how we talk.
In no other place have I had the experienced of being instantly understood and instantly understanding others in terms of communication as at the meetups. You don't have to explain yourself. People think in the same ways about the same things.
In no other place have I had the experienced of being instantly understood and instantly understanding others in terms of communication as at the meetups. You don't have to explain yourself. People think in the same ways about the same things.
-
- Posts: 1948
- Joined: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:31 am
-
- Posts: 1659
- Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:24 am
Yeah, I'd be mostly interested in putting names to faces and hanging out with people with similar mindsets and personalities.
I think some of the potential awkwardness involved in getting a bunch of introverts together can be alleviated by involving some type of (frugal) activity as well. Museum visits, movie screenings, etc.
I think some of the potential awkwardness involved in getting a bunch of introverts together can be alleviated by involving some type of (frugal) activity as well. Museum visits, movie screenings, etc.
-
- Posts: 74
- Joined: Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:11 am
- Location: Portland Oregon
- Contact:
Re:
Great advice !!!! Hustle it up !!!!!jacob wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:41 pm1) Take the initiative and name a place and a date. Then start a thread here with the place, time, and date here.
If you sit around waiting for someone else, it will never happen.
2) Collect names and numbers.
3) A few days before the meetup, confirm whether it's a go or a no-go based on whether a sufficient number of people have RSVP'ed.
Tips:
You can hold a meetup without me. There have been meetups in Seattle, Chicago, and New York City without me.
It is helpful to provide instructions for how to get there in case it's complicated.
If it's a busy place, it helps to bring a sign that says ERE or something. You could also bring the ERE book and wave it around.
Most people tend to bring potluck snacks.
A meetup is a good chance to downsize your book collection...and other collections.
If you have any questions, it's good to write them down in advance. Otherwise, you'll forget to ask them.
-
- Posts: 383
- Joined: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:45 am
Re: How to hold a meetup
Discovered Billie Eilish.
-
- Posts: 1240
- Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:14 pm
- Location: Falls City, OR
Re: How to hold a meetup
Really? Only yesterday?
It's OK she's not the greatest, she's just pretty good.
-
- Posts: 383
- Joined: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:45 am
Re: How to hold a meetup
I basically live in the 60's.
-
- Posts: 1240
- Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:14 pm
- Location: Falls City, OR
Re: How to hold a meetup
If you and I go up to Portland again for one of these we could meet in Monmouth or Rickreal (Highway 99W) and carpool up from there unless one of us has plans for that night. I would pay for your dinner and drinks to not have to drive home in the dark and the rain.
-
- Posts: 383
- Joined: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:45 am
Re: How to hold a meetup
Enigma, we must coordinate.
-
- Posts: 1240
- Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:14 pm
- Location: Falls City, OR
Re: How to hold a meetup
I agree.
-
- Posts: 5406
- Joined: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:28 am
- Location: Wettest corner of Orygun
Re: How to hold a meetup
Ugh, Tuesday night was worst drive in awhile. We'd been at father-in-law's near Canby and Portland traffic got clogged in the rain, so it was dark already by the time we reached Hillsboro... mountains were patchy fog and rain plus the dark. Near the last summit, there was a barely seen deer trotting along the highway shoulder which I'm thankful didn't unexpectedly turn into the highway.enigmaT120 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:08 amI would pay for your dinner and drinks to not have to drive home in the dark and the rain.
Anyway, yes, coordinating travel for meetups should work well for those who can take advantage.