japanfan wrote:What is gonna happen on this meetup? I may come though London is a bit far. I did like the sound of the Japan club nights idea on Japan Pioneers though i feel arranging and paying for this would be nigh on impossible!
I've tried to forge some kind of what we might call 'cross-pollination' between this site and Pioneers, since I belong to both.
Paul Rymer is potentially thinking that in the future a club night would be possible, though, like you say, it will take a LOT of organisation.
So I would suggest that anyone who would like something like the club night attends the meetup if they can. This meetup will, I think, consist of going for lunch somewhere and the only Japan-related content will be in our conversations - BUT it will prove a benchmark for the future. Paul (or anyone else) is not going to want to organise something if two people turn up.
I know you're in Scotland, and I'm in the North West, but I think it's a case of what grows from small acorns. Potentially there could be meetups across the country, if enough people are interested. At the moment, though, it's a big 'if' - seeing as how I'm posting this I can't check to be certain, but I think there have been 15 votes in a month. There are 400-odd members here, and I can't believe that only 3% of them live in the UK.
[Edit: OK, the poll started on 6 April, but I get the feeling we've had about as many responses as we're going to, hence the decision to close tomorrow night.]
Again I feel a bit like Debi Zornes from the old Bamboo days - if people don't want to come, there won't be anything to come to. If people make a bit of an effort - which I will be doing by going to London - who knows what wonderful things could happen in the future?
Natasha
PS. I just had to ask my partner how to express 15 people as a percentage of 400+...