Random thoughts. HN meetings are often organized on meetup.com, eventbrite, etc.... so maybe start linking to those meetngs? Also, There's an organization cal

Random thoughts. HN meetings are often organized on meetup.com, eventbrite, etc.... so maybe start linking to those meetngs? Also, There's an organization called Pechakucha Night. It started in Tokyo by an architecture company. Their format was each presenter gives them 20 images, they run for 20 seconds each on auto-play. So your presentation is exactly 400 seconds long (6 mins, 4 second). In any case, with no promotion on their part that I know if, people started organizing the same event in other countries. There are 1325 places in the world that have had one of these meetups. 57 meetups happened in November They run a website that people can post their meetups. https://www.pechakucha.com/ https://www.pechakucha.com/ A similar example is Nerd Nite which IIUC followed a similar pattern. Started in one place. Others, inspired, copied. https://nerdnite.com/ https://nerdnite.com/ Anyway, the point is maybe they're a model. Have your site be similar. Maybe contact existing meetups and ask them to add to your event list. I don't know if a format would help. Nerd Nite is generally three 10-20 minute talks with 20 minutes between. Pechakucha Night is usually 2-3 sets of ~4 talks with a 20 minute break between talks. Maybe suggesting a more fixed format, rather than just "hang out", is a better draw, more likely to attract people to the event? Also, random observation. Pechakucha night in my city used to be held in a big room with no seats which IMO helped people mingle. They moved it to a place with seats and everyone just sits in their seats with who ever they came with. Similarly, Nerd Nite was at reasonably large venue. They moved to some restaurant like venue and now it's nearly impossible to mingle as there is no room to stand near anyone. I know you're not necessarily organizing any events but maybe a "guideline" on running events would be useful for encouraging people to organize.