Don't Back Down

In various places around the world, they hold meetings with some regularity for people who have similar interests. Meetup has thousands of groups where you can get your group together and organized, but unfortunately they started charging people to organize things a while back, which means if you are just casually interested in getting things together, it may not be worth it.

Which leads me to my question in the title: Is anyone interested in a Charlotte Blog Meetup? It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Chow has dinners fairly frequently, and even if the food in our area may not be as interesting as his Dim Sum, it is certainly something we could check out. We could even just do coffee or something, though I don't really dig coffee, so I'd hope there were alternatives.

If the weather were nicer, we could do smoothies or ice cream. And doughnuts are always good to eat, but I'm not sure it's the best place to go to hang out for any length of time. Maybe we could do a Blogger Bowl-o-rama or something. Just tossing out ideas now, I really have no idea and I'm just trying to see if there's any interest.

I know there are a few people in the general vicinity - Andy, Armando, Dave and Luke to name a few, though they may or may not have written anything recently, and I can't look anything up right now because GeoURL is down. It isn't my intention to leave you out - if I did, let me know and I'll add your name too.

In any case, if you're in the vicinity and interested in getting a semi-regular meeting together, let me know and let's see if we can do something. It doesn't have to be official (through Meetup), but if there is enough interest and that would help grow things, then I'm open to taking that route - I just don't want to spend the money if no one is going to come!