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We have similar conversations in Australia/NZ, and because of our community’s relative size for the size of the country, our WordCamps in various state capitals invariably turn into national events with people coming from all over. So maybe the discussion could broaden to Growing Regional Communities, not just Europe.
In AU/NZ it’s a challenge to organise more than a couple of wC type events a year because the local communities are small and there’s pressure (that organisers put on themselves) to create big events (maybe that’s an Aussie thing.. “go big or go home”). So there’s a sense for me in which I’d like to talk about trying to reduce the pressure of having to make such big events (and as a result, less often – i.e. we only one WordCamp in AU this year, but to their credit NZ had two) and allow for smaller, grass roots events more often to actaully get more of the locals involved.
On balance, no doubt that’s what meetups are about and we need to be ploughing more into that so, a discussion for those of us who are operating on our own national level on how to foster local groups would be great, and whether there’s scope for looking at more formal regional community organising teams to give locals a more accessible supportive local resources (rather than feeling like we’re always looking to the U.S. for support) for building their things might be good.
Now look what you made me do! Sorry about the word vomit.. kind of thinking it through as I type.
