Congratulations on running a year of meetups! That’s not easy.
In the past I’ve had difficulty pinning down an appropriate meeting schedule. Was there discussion in your group over the meetup frequency? When you rebooted the group, was it explicitly as a weekly group? How well did the first few members know each other before the decision to meet weekly was made?
Sorry for the delayed response—for some reason I never got any notifications about comments on this post.
We never had a discussion about the schedule when the reboot happened, mostly because “weekly” was the way we’d always done it and nobody seemed interested in changing it. Yes, it was explicitly weekly. The “core” members had known each other for anywhere from 3-5 years, but that was mostly in the context of the meetup (with a few exceptions). That’s changed significantly—we (including the newer members) spend much more time together socially outside of the context of the meetups now than we used to.
Congratulations on running a year of meetups! That’s not easy.
In the past I’ve had difficulty pinning down an appropriate meeting schedule. Was there discussion in your group over the meetup frequency? When you rebooted the group, was it explicitly as a weekly group? How well did the first few members know each other before the decision to meet weekly was made?
Sorry for the delayed response—for some reason I never got any notifications about comments on this post.
We never had a discussion about the schedule when the reboot happened, mostly because “weekly” was the way we’d always done it and nobody seemed interested in changing it. Yes, it was explicitly weekly. The “core” members had known each other for anywhere from 3-5 years, but that was mostly in the context of the meetup (with a few exceptions). That’s changed significantly—we (including the newer members) spend much more time together socially outside of the context of the meetups now than we used to.