Adopt a Meetup Project
From Operation Cat Herder
What is it all about
Sorry this list is late again...
There have been 117 adoptions from the past 13 lists! There were 8 adoptions last week.
This weeks list with 40 dim Meetups, down from 70 is a HUGE improvement! This is also the week with the fewest at risk groups since we started doing this! - There are some Meetups on the list with over 100 members. If you were ever considering adopting a Meetup, this would be a good week to do it!
This is now the 14th Adopt a Meetup list and we are noticing a very healthy trend in the number of Meetups at risk with each passing week. In sequence: 63, 68, 74, 74, 63, 55, 51, 53, 42, 52, 56, 79, 70, 40 We are on the upswing and the movement is again gaining momentum!
With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promising, what with all the delegate wins we've had! It's worth another $72 to renew for another 6 months ? lest keep this movement ALIVE! For every one that drops out, we will loose, on average, 50 supporters. Every month, for the next six months roughly 250 Meetups will get that renewal notice. Some will renew - some will not. When a organizer fails to renew, Meetup sends out a notice to the remaining members offering them the position of organizer for 2 weeks, and if there are no bites - the Meetup goes away.
We need volunteer organizers to stem this tide. 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 still 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
08/26/08 list
1 Closed Clermont Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 1 days left! (1 members) 2 Closed Oregonians for Ron Paul => 1 days left! (31 members) 3 Closed The Lumberton Ron Paul 2008 Meetup => 1 days left! (9 members) 4 Closed Western Oregon University students for Ron Paul => 1 days left! (16 members) 5 Closed RepubliDem Social Club => 2 days left! (2 members) 6 Closed The Granbury And Surrounding Area Ron Paul Meetup => 2 days left! (18 members) 7 Closed The Longmont Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 2 days left! (28 members) 8 Closed The NEPA THINKERS" Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 2 days left! (33 members) 9 Closed MEETUP IS CLOSING DOWN!!!!!!!! => 3 days left! (1 members) 10 Closed The West Pasco Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 3 days left! (49 members) 11 Closed The Aloha for Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 4 days left! (26 members) 12 ADOPTED! The Clermont County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 4 days left! (61 members) 13 ADOPTED! The Greater Cincinnati Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 4 days left! (20 members) 14 ADOPTED! The Mankato Campaign For Liberty Meetup Group => 4 days left! (57 members) 15 Closed Jefferson County Missouri Ron Paul Meetup Group => 5 days left! (24 members) 16 Closed The Bridgeport Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 5 days left! (18 members) 17 Closed Ron Paul/ Restore the Republic Meetup Group => 7 days left! (34 members) 18 Closed The Falls Church/Annandale Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 7 days left! (70 members) 19 Closed The Harrisonburg Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 7 days left! (68 members) 20 ADOPTED! The Santa Maria Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 7 days left! (33 members) 21 Boerne Campaign for Liberty => 9 days left! (15 members) 22 New Braunfels Campaign for Liberty => 9 days left! (45 members) 23 The Indian Trail Ron Paul and Freedom NOW Meetup Group => 9 days left! (37 members) 24 ADOPTED! The Ron Paul 2008 International Forum => 9 days left! (112 members) 25 The Waterville Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 9 days left! (27 members) 26 Mount Juliet Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty => 10 days left! (36 members) 27 ADOPTED! The Knoxville Volunteers Ron Paul Campaign for LIberty => 10 days left! (70 members) 28 10th District Virginia Ron Paul Meetup Group => 11 days left! (69 members) 29 Kennebec County Home Church Meetup Group => 11 days left! (2 members) 30 Pennsylvania Delegates for Ron Paul 2008 Online Group => 11 days left! (87 members) 31 Pueblo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 11 days left! (34 members) 32 The Marana Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 11 days left! (28 members) 33 The Saginaw/Bay City/ Midland Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 11 days left! (77 members) 34 ADOPTED! UMDCP Students for Ron Paul => 11 days left! (33 members) 35 Washington & Greene County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 11 days left! (47 members) 36 Freedom Tour 08 => 12 days left! (69 members) 37 Los Alamos for Ron Paul 2008 => 12 days left! (13 members) 38 The Seaside Heights Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 12 days left! (54 members) 39 Lake Cty Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 13 days left! (9 members) 40 The Richmond County Campaign for Liberty => 13 days left! (12 members) 41 Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty of Bismarck => 14 days left! (35 members) 42 The Ketchikan / Thorne Bay (District 1) Ron Paul 2008 Meetup => 14 days left! (7 members) 43 The Sitka/Petersburg/Wrangell (Dist. 2) Ron Paul 2008 Meetup => 14 days left! (12 members) 44 The Ulster County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 14 days left! (53 members) 45 Truth and Honesty in Government. Vote Ron Paul in 08!! => 14 days left! (17 members) 46 Baltimore City Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 15 days left! (54 members) 47 ADOPTED! Burlington/Graham Campaign for Liberty Meetup => 15 days left! (45 members) 48 DAYTONA RON PAUL => 15 days left! (65 members) 49 FLAGLER/PALM COAST RON PAUL MEETUP => 15 days left! (11 members) 50 Greenville, NC Ron Paul Meetup! => 15 days left! (39 members) 51 Jacksonville, NC Ron Paul Meetup => 15 days left! (45 members) 52 NE Iowa - Waterloo / Cedar Falls - Ron Paul 2008 Meetup => 15 days left! (32 members) 53 NEW SMYRNA RON PAUL => 15 days left! (34 members) 54 Ron Paul's Rebels, Rogues & Renegades (18+ Only, Please) => 15 days left! (17 members) 55 SE Iowa - Muscatine - Ron Paul 2008 Meetup => 15 days left! (23 members) 56 The Bellevue Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 15 days left! (5 members) 57 The Cedar Rapids Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 15 days left! (92 members) 58 The Covington Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 15 days left! (13 members) 59 The Quincy Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group => 15 days left! (33 members) 60 The West Seattle - 34th District Ron Paul Meetup Group => 15 days left! (30 members)
Previous lists
081808 1 Adoption!
071008 6 Adoptions!
070308 8 Adoptions!
061908 14 Adoptions!
061208 4 Adoptions!
060508 2 Adoptions!
052908 5 Adoptions!
052208 5 Adoptions!
051508 2 Adoptions!
050908 9 Adoptions!
050108 9 Adoptions!
042408 16 Adoptions!
040908 8 Adoptions!
032508 16 Adoptions!
031508 19 Adoptions!
