Thing is, getting things to happen doesn’t actually take a LOT of time and effort (depending on what you’re trying to make happen.). The difference between something happening and not can be as simple as making a facebook event and inviting a bunch of people. The key is that someone has to take responsibility, however little or however much effort that is, to say “I will be the one to try and make this happen” instead of saying “Man this should really be a thing”
Never ask. Asking a bunch of people about that will end up taking forever and have no conclusive answer. Schedule events when convenient for what you think will be multiple people sometime in advance, but with a concrete time and place. People will happily give you input after you do this and you can change it later, but this is much more reliable.
Thing is, getting things to happen doesn’t actually take a LOT of time and effort (depending on what you’re trying to make happen.). The difference between something happening and not can be as simple as making a facebook event and inviting a bunch of people. The key is that someone has to take responsibility, however little or however much effort that is, to say “I will be the one to try and make this happen” instead of saying “Man this should really be a thing”
It’s the old “herding cats” problem—finding a time and place that you can get enough people to show up at is hard.
Never ask. Asking a bunch of people about that will end up taking forever and have no conclusive answer. Schedule events when convenient for what you think will be multiple people sometime in advance, but with a concrete time and place. People will happily give you input after you do this and you can change it later, but this is much more reliable.
The beauty of defaults: the default to an open question is to ignore or not act, the default to an announcement of a date is to think about it.