tangent4ronpaul
05-08-2008, 11:56 PM
Adopt a Meetup Project 05/09/08 list
Last weeks list resulted in in 9 Adoptions! - Way to go people!
With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promicing, 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:
http://www.operationcatherder.com/index.php/State_by_State_Status 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: RonPaulForums.com and DailyPaul.com as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are ronpaullive.com and ronpaulpublic.com. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, http://www.freedomfortress.net/ 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.
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/
Please also join:
http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008
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:
1 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1123/ (The Meigs, Rhea, and Sequatchie Counties Ron Paul Meetup) => -1 days left!
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1628/ (The Fremont Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1639/ (TheRon Paul D. Moines, Burien, Tukwila, S-Tac, Normandy P MU) => -1 days left!
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1642/ (The Wyoming County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1835/ (The Anna / Melissa Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => -1 days left!
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/888/ (The Cleveland Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1653/ (Port Charlotte-Punta Gorda Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left!
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1062/ (The Poulsbo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left!
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1144/ (The Rutherford County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left!
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1302/ (Florida Grassroots Organic Community) => 1 days left!
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1286/ (The Cape Town Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left!
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1776/ (The Goldendale Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 2 days left!
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/830/ (The Cisne Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left!
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1080/ (The Madrid Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1083/ (The Foothills Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1085/ (The Wayne County Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/860/ (US Expats in Antigua for Ron Paul) => 3 days left!
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1063/ (Priest River ID & Pend Oreille Co WA Ron Paul 2008) => 4 days left!
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1096/ (The Milton Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left!
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1483/ (TOOELE County UT Vote 4 Liberty in '08: RON PAUL 4 PRESIDENT) => 4 days left!
21 http://firecongress.meetup.com/5/ (The Texas CD 9 Fire Congress Meetup) => 5 days left!
22 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1227/ (The South Elgin Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1468/ (The Klamath Falls Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1568/ (Ron Paul South Maui Meetup) => 5 days left!
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/828/ (The Central Maui Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/105/ (The Bell County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1099/ (Grasstip-Hopper Ron Paul Banners Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1694/ (The Friday Harbor Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1106/ (The Ada Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left!
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1191/ (Laurel and Jones County for Ron Paul 2008) => 7 days left!
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/202/ (Brenham/Blinn College 4 Ron Paul 2008) => 9 days left!
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/507/ (Operation Hawkeye 1) => 9 days left!
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1049/ (The Late Night Charleston Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1131/ (The Ron Paul Creative Force Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1132/ (the sons of liberty/trinity county chapter) => 10 days left!
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1564/ (The Saba Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/233/ (Ron Paul for President - Hamilton County) => 10 days left!
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/244/ (Hoosiers For Ron Paul - Terre Haute) => 10 days left!
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/353/ (The Humboldt Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/576/ (The Chenango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1150/ (The La Grange Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left!
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1787/ (The Muskogee Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 11 days left!
43 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/671/ (iLiveFree.us a Festival and Ron Paul Warriors Meetup) => 11 days left!
44 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/851/ (The North Shore Conservative Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left!
45 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1088/ (North Central Ohio Ron Paul 2008 Meetup; Ron Paul rEVOLution) => 12 days left!
46 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1205/ (Florida Panhandle Organizers) => 12 days left!
47 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1725/ (The Venango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left!
48 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1446/ (Columbia County for Ron Paul) => 13 days left!
49 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1644/ (The Litchfield Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 13 days left!
50 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1015/ (The Saco Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left!
51 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1086/ (Ron Paul MISSISSIPPI Statewide Network) => 14 days left!
52 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/156/ (Jackson, Mississippi Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 14 days left!
53 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1803/ (Indiana Paulitics 2008) => 14 days left!
54 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1843/ (The Toledo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 14 days left!
55 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1418/ (moved out) => 15 days left!
Last weeks list resulted in in 9 Adoptions! - Way to go people!
With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promicing, 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:
http://www.operationcatherder.com/index.php/State_by_State_Status 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: RonPaulForums.com and DailyPaul.com as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are ronpaullive.com and ronpaulpublic.com. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, http://www.freedomfortress.net/ 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.
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/
Please also join:
http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008
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:
1 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1123/ (The Meigs, Rhea, and Sequatchie Counties Ron Paul Meetup) => -1 days left!
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1628/ (The Fremont Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1639/ (TheRon Paul D. Moines, Burien, Tukwila, S-Tac, Normandy P MU) => -1 days left!
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1642/ (The Wyoming County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1835/ (The Anna / Melissa Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => -1 days left!
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/888/ (The Cleveland Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left!
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1653/ (Port Charlotte-Punta Gorda Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left!
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1062/ (The Poulsbo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left!
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1144/ (The Rutherford County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left!
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1302/ (Florida Grassroots Organic Community) => 1 days left!
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1286/ (The Cape Town Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left!
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1776/ (The Goldendale Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 2 days left!
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/830/ (The Cisne Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left!
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1080/ (The Madrid Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1083/ (The Foothills Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1085/ (The Wayne County Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 3 days left!
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/860/ (US Expats in Antigua for Ron Paul) => 3 days left!
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1063/ (Priest River ID & Pend Oreille Co WA Ron Paul 2008) => 4 days left!
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1096/ (The Milton Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left!
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1483/ (TOOELE County UT Vote 4 Liberty in '08: RON PAUL 4 PRESIDENT) => 4 days left!
21 http://firecongress.meetup.com/5/ (The Texas CD 9 Fire Congress Meetup) => 5 days left!
22 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1227/ (The South Elgin Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1468/ (The Klamath Falls Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1568/ (Ron Paul South Maui Meetup) => 5 days left!
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/828/ (The Central Maui Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left!
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/105/ (The Bell County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1099/ (Grasstip-Hopper Ron Paul Banners Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1694/ (The Friday Harbor Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left!
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1106/ (The Ada Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left!
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1191/ (Laurel and Jones County for Ron Paul 2008) => 7 days left!
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/202/ (Brenham/Blinn College 4 Ron Paul 2008) => 9 days left!
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/507/ (Operation Hawkeye 1) => 9 days left!
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1049/ (The Late Night Charleston Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1131/ (The Ron Paul Creative Force Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1132/ (the sons of liberty/trinity county chapter) => 10 days left!
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1564/ (The Saba Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/233/ (Ron Paul for President - Hamilton County) => 10 days left!
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/244/ (Hoosiers For Ron Paul - Terre Haute) => 10 days left!
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/353/ (The Humboldt Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/576/ (The Chenango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left!
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1150/ (The La Grange Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left!
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1787/ (The Muskogee Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 11 days left!
43 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/671/ (iLiveFree.us a Festival and Ron Paul Warriors Meetup) => 11 days left!
44 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/851/ (The North Shore Conservative Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left!
45 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1088/ (North Central Ohio Ron Paul 2008 Meetup; Ron Paul rEVOLution) => 12 days left!
46 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1205/ (Florida Panhandle Organizers) => 12 days left!
47 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1725/ (The Venango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left!
48 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1446/ (Columbia County for Ron Paul) => 13 days left!
49 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1644/ (The Litchfield Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 13 days left!
50 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1015/ (The Saco Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left!
51 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1086/ (Ron Paul MISSISSIPPI Statewide Network) => 14 days left!
52 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/156/ (Jackson, Mississippi Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 14 days left!
53 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1803/ (Indiana Paulitics 2008) => 14 days left!
54 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1843/ (The Toledo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 14 days left!
55 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1418/ (moved out) => 15 days left!