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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 3665900" data-attributes="member: 12332">Tried starting a Meetup or tried starting a Meetup in Kelowna?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I tried to start a Meetup in one town, but I never formalized it as such because I found a group before many people had expressed interest.  I didn't formally start the meet-up, just joined in the "looking for a meetup" for my town and THOUGHT real hard about it.My wife and I recently attended a meetup for D&D gamers in our town, even though I'm already in a group ... mostly looking for another group that would fit her schedule so we could both get in on a game, look to see if people were interested in me starting a game under such a time slot, and meeting people (since we have few friends in town, and all of them are "my" friends, and most of them are considerably older and/or not interested in the kinds of things my wife and I like to do).  It was ... okay.  Apparently we caught the group right after they had to switch meeting venues and it went from 12-15 people showing up for the meetup to ... six ... including us.  It was ... average.  One of the people was seriously distracted the entire time by his PhD thesis, and left early.  One guy was a bit socially shy and retired early.  Everybody was about what you'd expect for gamer geeks:  Rather varied, essentially okay, a tad dorky.  We met a nice couple that we thought we hit it off with alright, who invited us to a game, but after trading a few emails they suddenly dropped off the planet.  I'm going to send a polite "Hi." today or tomorrow to see if they merely forgot to respond to my last message (a week ago), or if we got the blow-off for some reason.So nothing big.  One meeting, we'll attend the next meeting.  Nothing has come of it yet but I would have been surprised if a lower-than-expected turn-out meeting turned into everything we ever wanted from Meetup.com instantly.People are people are people.  We're thinking of starting a meetup and joining a few other meetups.  We're signed up for a board game meetup this weekend, and we're going to crash a wiccan meetup tonight even though neither of us are wiccan because the book-store they're meeting up sounds cool and we have a few wiccan friends.If there's one problem I have with Meetup is it seems TOO focused.  You can start a d20 Meetup, a D&D Meetup, a SWRPG Saga Edition Meetup ... so people can get fractured into extremely focused meetups, it seems.  So it seems valuable for meeting people who are interested in one thing you're interested in, but for general meet-n-greet it might be less so, unless you meet the same person at your Inuyasha Fans Meetup your Anime Meetup and your Asian Furries Meetup or whatnot (which is to say you might be friends outside of one interest if you're seeing the same person at multiple functions).--fje</blockquote>

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