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I wonder if the inflation has made a lot of people tighten their spending. Many meetup events were at businesses where the expectation is that attendees are spe

I wonder if the inflation has made a lot of people tighten their spending. Many meetup events were at businesses where the expectation is that attendees are spending money. I suspect meetup groups are having a harder time finding white-collar companies with unused office space to let them host talks/socials in also. People might also just be working more now

happymellon 3y ago
Nope, no cost to attendees and free pizza/beer. I have a stable location, plus a couple of other locations that have been offered and that could be if the current space didn't want to host anymore. I can only assume the topics and/or speakers are just not ones that people care about. But as mentioned, Meetup doesn't really let me get any form of feedback easily. I can fire out an email to people who have ticked the box, but I have no idea how many have and therefore the potential reach. I've sent about 3 in the past 5 years, once looking for spaces to host us, once seeking speakers, and once to request speakers again and give a feedback form to figure out what people want. Two people answered the form.
- happymellon 3y ago
  For a little context, this is a dev ops group but entirely flexible. I've run lab sessions (that were attended pretty okay) where AWS gave us a bunch of credits for people to hack on lambda to explore different languages for Hacktober. I had another where we managed to get a senior engineer from Pulumi, Hashicorp (for Terraform), and AWS (to present CDK) and got them to give a highlight and demo as to why pick them which I thought would be fun, and I found really interesting. For the heavy tech city that I'm in, it wasn't well attended. Has anyone have thoughts as to what they would be interested in learning more about, more hands on? As I said, I'm planning on folding because of the lack of feedback so this is more curiosity.

happymellon 3y ago

Nope, no cost to attendees and free pizza/beer. I have a stable location, plus a couple of other locations that have been offered and that could be if the current space didn't want to host anymore. I can only assume the topics and/or speakers are just not ones that people care about. But as mentioned, Meetup doesn't really let me get any form of feedback easily. I can fire out an email to people who have ticked the box, but I have no idea how many have and therefore the potential reach. I've sent about 3 in the past 5 years, once looking for spaces to host us, once seeking speakers, and once to request speakers again and give a feedback form to figure out what people want. Two people answered the form.

happymellon 3y ago
For a little context, this is a dev ops group but entirely flexible. I've run lab sessions (that were attended pretty okay) where AWS gave us a bunch of credits for people to hack on lambda to explore different languages for Hacktober. I had another where we managed to get a senior engineer from Pulumi, Hashicorp (for Terraform), and AWS (to present CDK) and got them to give a highlight and demo as to why pick them which I thought would be fun, and I found really interesting. For the heavy tech city that I'm in, it wasn't well attended. Has anyone have thoughts as to what they would be interested in learning more about, more hands on? As I said, I'm planning on folding because of the lack of feedback so this is more curiosity.