S TAT E O F T H E M E E T U P# W P PA R RA
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• Our first Meetup (in Parramatta)
• July 1, 2013 at City Extra
• “Anyone else interested in a local western suburbs meetup, we can choose a cafe in church st, parramatta if anyone else in this area is interested.”
• Organised by Mitch
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• Organised independent of the Sydney Meetups
• …but they have always been supportive of us
• …and have embraced us as part one of the “franchises”
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• We have always been a Morning Meetup.
• Our number one complaint: “You’re a morning Meetup.”
• Many comments online: “Hey, I was there at 7:30pm, no one was there.”
• Strong push for evening Meetups.
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• City Extra
• Great place to have breakfast and network
• Awful place to run a presentation
• Loud
• No screens
• No clear way to present there
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• TAFE GWS Office (i.e. here)
• Seems like a pretty good place for the Meetup.
• Expensive.
• Tonight was an experiment in holding an evening Meetup
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• Parramatta College
• Seems like a pretty good place for the Meetup.
• Affordable.
• We will try a few more evening Meetups at Parramatta College.
• 410 Church St, North Parramatta NSW 2151
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• Where do we go from here?
• We need to build our member base.
• We need speakers!
• We need to promote ourselves a little better
• Hashtag: #wpparra
• Matches other WordPress hashtags (wpsyd, wpmelb, etc)
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