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A reawakening of systems programming meetups

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Re: A reawakening of systems programming meetups

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With GPS its not so much the location but thr change in time commitment. The new location is never 5 min from the preious but 30-45 min difference. People in these groups often have busy lives so if your 3hrs suddenly becomes 4hrs its simply less of a headache to cut the unnecessary thing rather than change 50 other things in your schedule. Eventually this scheduking effect shakes off all thr people in the group with…

Yeah. I've become quite selective with respect to evening events where I need to drive 45-60 minutes to attend.

My personal Fav group killer is when the organizer announces

"Good News! We finally have a permanent location!!!!"

Then it turns out to be 45min in one compass direction outside of the city. Meaning the location will be 2+ hr drive one way for the 75%'ish of the members that don't live on that side of the city. Essentially killing the group on announcement. I've seen this happen several times.

I do get that running a group is hard, I've done it. Its just that at that point you may as well just throw in the towel.

Also for some reason its always a run down church or VFW location when this happens.

Re: A reawakening of systems programming meetups

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Wow, great article. Really struck a chord with me. I help run the Boulder Ruby meetup ( https://boulder-ruby.org/ ). We survived covid, having to move venues multiple times, and the declining sexiness of Ruby. Thanks so much to our sponsors Mojotech (for space and drinks) and Github (for zoom). We're still looking for other sponsors for pizza support--if you are in the Boulder area and are interested, please reach ou…

> the declining sexiness of Ruby What is replacing it?

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