Are you familiar with Meetup.com? This is a website where you can find people in your own geographic area who share the same interests with you.
What happens is someone will be the first to express an interest in a topic and then others will come along and find that topic on Meetup.com and they’ll sign up, too. When enough people have signed up, they go ahead and schedule an actual Meetup. Meanwhile, each time a new person signs up, the earlier signer-uppers get an email to let them know.
Rochester has an American Sign Language “Meetup in the Making” that has been going on for more than two years now. Jeffrey Greene was the first person to sign up, on September 10, 2005, and Dionne was the 36th and most recent, on September 21, 2007.
So what’s it going to take to transition this wannabe Meetup into the real thing? Isn’t 36 people enough?
What it will take, apparently, is for one of the 36, or someone who hasn’t signed up yet, to agree to be the group leader. So far, it seems that no one has wanted to take on that role.
To learn more about Meetup.com and see the list of people on the waiting list, click HERE.
