Another great twist on the meetup is the http://houseofgenius.org format. One of the challenges to open discussion is the way in which people conform to roles and hierarchies. In House of Genius gatherings, there is a veil of anonymity that helps release participants from these roles. The result is addictive. You find developers, VCs, political leaders, artists, and other successful people sharing and learning in ways they can't find through any other avenues in their lives.
This is a nice idea. We had tried this once in Bangalore, however, there was two major challenges.
1. Not enough people asking great questions. 2. The answers to questions was only vocal, with no presentation or material to back it up.
The first was easily solved by seeding a few question in the public to get things moving. However the number 2 was a major problem. Many people were not able to connect to the answers/discussions.
I would love to know if you are able to solve the 2nd problem.
Thought I would share my experience.
Fab! Certainly interests me. I've signed up for the announce list. I don't work for a startup but we're pretty small and "start up" like.
Would you guys want to run one in Cambridge? I'd be happy to liaise with you as there's quite a few geeky meetups here in the Silicon Fen
I've been feeling the same frustration regards meetups recently, so definitely share the sentiment.Unfortunately, while I work with developers quite often, I'm not actually a developer, but I'd love to participate in a meetup where it's more discussion focused.
If you decide to address other topics such as business, marketing, management. I'd love to be a part of it.
Really interesting conversations everytime I went.
I spoke at Many to Many a couple of months ago. A very interesting, different sort of meetup. Recommended.
Looks good, I'll try to make it!
Very interesting idea, thanks for sharing.
My question would be how do you make sure the quieter members speak up and it's not just the same people talking all the time? Is this something the moderator just has to watch for?
cool idea, you should think about using crowdsound.io to do even more interesting interactive stuff, and yes, it is my app.
Clickable: http://www.manytomany.co.uk/