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How do I start a group/discussion/meeting in my town?

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How do I start a group/discussion/meeting in my town?

I am a software engineer and I live in a not very active town. I like the idea of contributing to the community in some way, and I would like the idea of starting meetings, a group, something like that where we could discuss about technology, learn things, discuss projects/ideas etc.

How would you do that from scratch?

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pshapiro99
Take your idea to your local public library. They might be able to help or give suggestions of paths you could follow.
highhedgehog
that's a more feasible idea in this area. I'd might do this
atsaloli
https://www.meetup.com/ makes it very easy to start a group -- you can then promote it and get people to attend and tell others

I've started a group over a decade ago, there are 500 members on the meetup.com site and we have anywhere from half a dozen to 20-30 people show up at any given meeting.

highhedgehog
Meetup is unfortunately not very popular here (i'm not in the US)