On 22 September 2014 13:53, rexx <rexx(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
We have pubs in Oxford, Coventry, Cambridge,
Manchester and now Liverpool
that are usually relatively quiet and uncrowded, so conversation is much
easier. Dan Haigh and I have done informal initial training a couple of
times in the pub - it's easy enough one-to-one and you can get a new editor
started in 20-30 mins.
On a point of detail, the Cambridge meetup is in a brasserie-type place,
rather
than a pub (we head off to a pub later if folk want). And it starts
middle of the afternoon, which is between midday and early evening peak
times.
The pub-or-not debate seems quite significant to me, as the
community-and-how-to-grow-it debate in microcosm. If you understand why a
meetup that starts in a pub will always be in a pub, you have a clue why
entrenched cultural factors in the online community also seem quite
stubborn.
Charles