Local universities and colleges are a fertile ground for people interested in both rational decision making and existential risks. Posting a note in a place like the UBC SUB is bound to net you a few hits. To make it easier for people to check out your website, use a 2D barcode they can scan with their cell camera. Make sure the front page of the site has a mobile-friendly version and contains a perfect elevator pitch for what you want to convey.
I wonder if LW could do something about that. It might be useful to pool work between meetups so that we don’t all have to maintain our own stuff.
like I’m thinking $location.lesswrong.com would be the site for a meetup at $location. Hosting and back-end stuff would be managed centrally with lesswrong.
Local universities and colleges are a fertile ground for people interested in both rational decision making and existential risks. Posting a note in a place like the UBC SUB is bound to net you a few hits. To make it easier for people to check out your website, use a 2D barcode they can scan with their cell camera. Make sure the front page of the site has a mobile-friendly version and contains a perfect elevator pitch for what you want to convey.
Good idea with the universities.
So do you think individual meetups should maintain a website? I think a mailing list is enough, but would like to hear more arguments.
My guess is that there should be a well-maintained blog of the “local chapter of LW” and a quality landing page. Mailing list is so 1980s.
I wonder if LW could do something about that. It might be useful to pool work between meetups so that we don’t all have to maintain our own stuff.
like I’m thinking $location.lesswrong.com would be the site for a meetup at $location. Hosting and back-end stuff would be managed centrally with lesswrong.