I'd definitely sign up for such a thing (technical-meetings-only meetup), but I suspect it will take some significant marketing/value-added to get a sizable technical membership (it will no doubt have a huge subset of the marketing/recruiting/sales/techno-wannabe/techno-hanger-on folks from the "flagship" techlife columbus group flocking to it).<div>
<br></div><div>I didn't realize that meetup has an external API (I mean, it makes sense; just never thought about it). Perhaps that's how sadukie does <a href="http://clevelandtechevents.com/">http://clevelandtechevents.com/</a> (and it's less popular cousin, <a href="http://columbustechevents.com">http://columbustechevents.com</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tyler Wymer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:twymer@gmail.com">twymer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't think a mailing list of these would be as useful as simply<br>
starting a new meetup group to serve as a technical meetings only<br>
subset of the Techlife meetup group.<br>
<br>
However in terms of a site, I don't think you'd need a "critical mass"<br>
of members. The majority of technical groups in Columbus have meetup<br>
pages. Their API would allow such a site to pull new meeting info from<br>
these groups to go along with user submitted meetings. This would mean<br>
that on launch with zero users, we would already have a more usable<br>
list of information than we currently have.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div></div></div></div>