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• Successful PM Groups (Score:3, Informative)

  by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2003.08.12 4:52 (#23012) Homepage Journal

  This article [pm.org] might be useful.
  
  Gabor's survey seemed to conclusively prove that london.pm was the biggest and the best :)

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• You can't "force" a group (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  pdx.pm goes through fits and starts, so I'm familiar with this. It takes two things to keep a group going... a leader that will do it, and a regular meeting, even if it's just a social meeting, although it helps to have meetings with speakers, even on the smallest of topics ("things you can do with a hash!").

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
• Melbourne PM (Score:1)

  by jarich (4909)

  Melbourne PM is active and happy. It went very very quiet after Skud left and then we (pjf, me and Scott) decided to bring some life back into it.

  My suggestions on bringing Sydney PM back to life are:

  • Start off with a social gathering for the first meeting - like going to a movie or cafe
  • Find somewhere to host the meeting that you can rely on for a while (contact me for a suggestion)
  • Update the website
  • Enthuse on the list for the whole month between the social gathering and the first officia