Adopt a Meetup Project
From Operation Cat Herder
What is it all about
When an organizer gets a Meetup, you really get 3 for the price of one, and like the early seeder program, if you have less than 3, we would like you to adopt some of these Meetups that are going into oblivion - at least long enough to find a new organizer or direct members to other resources where they can stay in the loop till we find a more permanent solution.
You can now look up these Meetups on: the State by State Status page to determine which Meetups are the most viable. That will tell you the number of members and the recent activity level. More members or more active means worth saving. Less active and less members, means join and try to contact and migrate supporters to a bigger group.
We need volunteers to join these Meetups and work them - explaining to the members that while we no longer have a chance at the nomination, other goals are just as important. Things like changing the party platform and rules, having a good delegate showing to establish viability of our message and gain media attention. The transformation of our campaign into a long term movement and electing our candidates to Congress and other positions (we have around 50 ppl running for office - it's not just about Dr. Paul).
While we will be looking at different projects and sites to send people to in the future, we suggest you send supporters to the 2 main web sites: Ron Paul Forums and Daily Paul as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are Ron Paul Live and Ron Paul Public. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, Freedom Fortress will let you mail to like minded supporters based on user adjustable distances from you. Many of these supporters are not connected to the movement beyond Meetup and we need people there to go to stay involved - even if you do not adopt their Meetup temporarily or permanently. Please focus on the Meetups with the most members or local to you first.
If you are a Meetup organizer, three of the 4 organizer groups, representing over 1/4 of the organizers have merged via a bridge. If you don't belong to ONE of these, please join! Just join one - a post to one goes to all.
- RPMeetupOrganizers Yahoo Group
Please also join:
This group is not currently bridged with the other 3, and is very limited in functionality, but is another way for organizers to communicate. Messages must be read on-line – there is no mailing list for this one.
If you want to be an organizer and are willing to cover the fees, look for an expiring Meetup close to you, join it and accept the organizer position - then join the network.
Remember, one person that does not want to pay the fees can cut off on average 50 supporters - some of which will be into the movement for the long term.
These are the Meetups in danger of going away in the next 2 weeks that need adoption or at least someone to join and encourage supporters to migrate to another nearby Meetup:
Current list
06/25/09 list
1 LibertyFest 2009 => 1 days left! (10 members) 2 Mohave County Citizens for Constitutional Freedom => 1 days left! (41 members) 3 Libertarian Party of Cuyahoga County => 3 days left! (22 members) 4 Juniata-Mifflin-Perry-County::Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 4 days left! (35 members) 5 The Chambersburg Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 7 days left! (55 members) 6 The Chehalis Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 7 days left! (34 members) 7 The Shenandoah County Constitutional Republicans Meetup => 7 days left! (40 members) 8 Cecil County Maryland Campaign for Liberty Meetup => 8 days left! (54 members) 9 Harford County MD Ron Paul for President Meetup => 8 days left! (33 members) 10 The Perry Hall -White Marsh Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 8 days left! (10 members) 11 Connecticut Supports Peter Schiff for U.S. Senate (CT) => 9 days left! (61 members) 12 The Midland Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 10 days left! (51 members) 13 The Odessa Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 10 days left! (31 members) 14 Grayson County Ron Paul 2008 Meetu => 11 days left! (11 members) 15 Abilene, Let's Send Councilman Sam Chase "Frontiering"! => 12 days left! (6 members) 16 Bob Barr for President Meetup: New Hampshire => 12 days left! (17 members) 17 Utah Bill of Rights Defense Committee => 12 days left! (41 members) 18 The Truckee Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 13 days left! (26 members) 19 The Eastern Shore Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 14 days left! (26 members) 20 ZL => 14 days left! (1 members) 21 Colorado Springs Liberty Meetup Group => 15 days left! (14 members) 22 The Lebanon County Campaign for Liberty Meetup Group => 15 days left! (38 members
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