YES YES YES! Do it! I predict it will be very well attended.
Seattle has the most LW readers of any city in the world without a meet-up!
Visits to LW the past year / Meetup
London 56,788 Yes
New York 41,422 Yes
San Francisco 29,036 Yes
Melbourne 24,199 Yes
Seattle 19,475 No
Chicago 17,235 Yes
Sydney 16,806 No
Helsinki 16,371 No
Los Angeles 14,083 Yes
Cambridge 13,622 Yes
Philadelphia 11,727 Yes
San Jose 11,702 Yes
11000+ Visitors
Moscow
Austin
10000+ Visitors
Washington
9000+ Visitors
Atlanta
Brisbane
Dublin
Houston
8000+ Visitors
Berkeley
Portland
7000+ Visitors
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Paris
Denver
Sunnyvale
Cambridge
Redmond
6000+ Visitors
Auckland
Singapore
Madison
Cupertino
Boston
Perth
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
Ann Arbor
Oxford
Adelaide
5000+ Visitors
Canberra
Vancouver
Berlin
San Diego
Mountain View
Bellevue
Vancouver
Dallas
Durham
4000+ Visitors
Bangalore
Stanford
Edinburgh
Budapest
Columbus
Riga
Manchester
La Jolla
Warsaw
Sacramento
Raleigh
Prague
Bristol
St. Louis
Boulder
Ljubljana
State College
EDIT: Added 13-50, these are total yearly visitors, not hits
All these cities had at least 500 unique visitors the last month. I would be confident starting a meetup anywhere with over 5000 visitors / year… all of which have at least half the readership of cities that already support meetups now. Other cities that look promising but are just on the borderline are Oslo, Hong Kong, and Princeton.
The first few meetup ran in Melbourne attracted 8 and then 12 people IIRC with just passive LW meetup notices a week or two in advance. I’d expect you to get around 6 people to show up that aren’t you with perhaps as many as 10.
Toronto is listed twice under 7,000+ visitors… this is clearly an error, but what is not clear is whether there are 7,000 or 14,000 aspiring rationalists in town.
I’d love a TO meetup but I’m too much of an introvert to organize a social gathering. If anyone steps up to the plate, let me know.
That was a bug in the list. Toronto had only 7000 visitors to LW last year. However, Vancouver was actually listed twice on purpose because it was in analytics twice. I assumed at the time that one was Vancouver, BC and the other was some other major world city named Vancouver… but now I’m not so sure there is another city named Vancouver that could credibly have had ~5,000 visitors as well. So that bug is by design but I’m not sure what that’s all about.
Anyway, Canada is still well represented on LW and Toronto is easily the best city to start Canada’s first LW meetup. If you won’t start it yourself, you should at least bring this up a bunch and goad someone else into doing it. Similarly sized cities like Pittsburgh, Sunnyvale, and Cambridge have all had meetup before.
Hmmm—looks like I should start up a Sydney meetup when I go back next year.
Or perhaps somebody else will start one up for me and I can transition smoothly ;)
YES YES YES! Do it! I predict it will be very well attended.
Seattle has the most LW readers of any city in the world without a meet-up!
Visits to LW the past year / Meetup
London 56,788 Yes
New York 41,422 Yes
San Francisco 29,036 Yes
Melbourne 24,199 Yes
Seattle 19,475 No
Chicago 17,235 Yes
Sydney 16,806 No
Helsinki 16,371 No
Los Angeles 14,083 Yes
Cambridge 13,622 Yes
Philadelphia 11,727 Yes
San Jose 11,702 Yes
11000+ Visitors
Moscow
Austin
10000+ Visitors
Washington
9000+ Visitors
Atlanta
Brisbane
Dublin
Houston
8000+ Visitors
Berkeley
Portland
7000+ Visitors
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Paris
Denver
Sunnyvale
Cambridge
Redmond
6000+ Visitors
Auckland
Singapore
Madison
Cupertino
Boston
Perth
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
Ann Arbor
Oxford
Adelaide
5000+ Visitors
Canberra
Vancouver
Berlin
San Diego
Mountain View
Bellevue
Vancouver
Dallas
Durham
4000+ Visitors
Bangalore
Stanford
Edinburgh
Budapest
Columbus
Riga
Manchester
La Jolla
Warsaw
Sacramento
Raleigh
Prague
Bristol
St. Louis
Boulder
Ljubljana
State College
EDIT: Added 13-50, these are total yearly visitors, not hits
All these cities had at least 500 unique visitors the last month. I would be confident starting a meetup anywhere with over 5000 visitors / year… all of which have at least half the readership of cities that already support meetups now. Other cities that look promising but are just on the borderline are Oslo, Hong Kong, and Princeton.
Louie, could you continue that list 20 or so ranks farther, so that readers from other cities might be inspired?
Do you have numbers on unique visitors, or just on page requests?
Go Oxford; probably the highest ratio of meetups to readers!
Any chance of getting an updated list like this?
Wow, I had no idea London was LessWrong central! Hmm, will soon be time to post a reminder for the March 6 meetup at 14:00 in the Shakespeare’s Head...
What is the range in size for meetups?
I’m just wondering what to expect when looking for locations.
The first few meetup ran in Melbourne attracted 8 and then 12 people IIRC with just passive LW meetup notices a week or two in advance. I’d expect you to get around 6 people to show up that aren’t you with perhaps as many as 10.
The last London one was about 16 people—but I’m told that may have been an anomaly… we’ll see.
Toronto is listed twice under 7,000+ visitors… this is clearly an error, but what is not clear is whether there are 7,000 or 14,000 aspiring rationalists in town.
I’d love a TO meetup but I’m too much of an introvert to organize a social gathering. If anyone steps up to the plate, let me know.
That was a bug in the list. Toronto had only 7000 visitors to LW last year. However, Vancouver was actually listed twice on purpose because it was in analytics twice. I assumed at the time that one was Vancouver, BC and the other was some other major world city named Vancouver… but now I’m not so sure there is another city named Vancouver that could credibly have had ~5,000 visitors as well. So that bug is by design but I’m not sure what that’s all about.
Anyway, Canada is still well represented on LW and Toronto is easily the best city to start Canada’s first LW meetup. If you won’t start it yourself, you should at least bring this up a bunch and goad someone else into doing it. Similarly sized cities like Pittsburgh, Sunnyvale, and Cambridge have all had meetup before.
There’s a city north of Portland called Vancouver. Pop: 161k+
Google Maps says the one north of Portland is Vancouver, BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington
Seems hard to believe it had that many visitors, though.
This is a valid point. Also, the city isn’t really populated by very… rational people.
no
Hmmm—looks like I should start up a Sydney meetup when I go back next year. Or perhaps somebody else will start one up for me and I can transition smoothly ;)