To people who do *not* come to meetups (and another question for those who do)
Roxolan
It's fairly common for a LessWrong meetup group to get people attending for a week or two, and then never showing up again (or never even show up at all). Most of the time, there may not be a very interesting reason for that. But if someone did have a bad experience at a meetup, this would be valuable information that they'd be unlikely to volunteer to the organizers.
Thus, Philip (organizer of a LW meetup in the US I think?) has created a form to collect meetup feedback. The primary purpose is: if you have a local LessWrong meetup that you don't currently attend, we'd like to know why. However, any other feedback is also appreciated: good feedback, bad-but-not-dealbreaking feedback,
and feedback from people who do currently attend. "Currently" is left up to your own interpretation.
Please fill in the form now.
It should only take a couple of minutes. There are three short-answer
questions and three longer ones, but all questions are optional. Better
to give a quick response now than to indefinitely postpone writing a
longer one.
If you want to give feedback to help LessWrong as a whole but you don't want me to know that it's about this group, you can do that too. Just leave the "where is your meetup" field blank. All responses will be made public, stripped of the "where is your meetup" field (and of the "anonymous identifier" field), but I'll be personally notified of any response that had "Brussels" as its location.
If you do currently attend a meetup, but want to give feedback anyway, please do also fill in the form.
If you think your answer seems boring, don't let that stop you: for example, we'd like to know relative numbers of "came once, had a bad time" versus "came once, but it's usually not convenient", and we can't do that if the second group don't reply.
[text adapted from the LW post]
And now, a related but separate question. Next meetup is coming up (10th of May, second Saturday of the month as usual) and I haven't picked a topic yet. We just did a boardgame meetup so I can't fall back on that. In Berlin, I learned new memory tricks and new Fermi calculation tricks, so I'm interested in doing a workshop about one of those, but I don't know if anyone else enjoys it. Maybe you're sick to death of the whole thing. Are you? I could also just use an open-ended topic like "transhumanism" or "psychology", though there's nothing I particularly feel like discussing. What about you? Feedback? Suggestions? Soonish please.
Hugo Jacob