Adopt a Meetup Project 05/15/08 list

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Adopt a Meetup Project 05/15/08 list

Last weeks list resulted in in 9 Adoptions! - Way to go people!

There have been 77 adoptions from the past 6 lists!

This is now the 7th 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. 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:
http://www.operationcatherder.com/in...y_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. NEW!: number of members is now included in the list.

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/1099/ (Grasstip-Hopper Ron Paul Banners Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (43 members)
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1694/ (The Friday Harbor Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (4 members)
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1106/ (The Ada Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (38 members)
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1191/ (Laurel and Jones County for Ron Paul 2008) => 1 days left! (25 members)
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/507/ (Operation Hawkeye 1) => 2 days left! (17 members)
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1049/ (The Late Night Charleston Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (47 members)
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1132/ (the sons of liberty/trinity county chapter) => 4 days left! (14 members)
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1564/ (The Saba Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (3 members)
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/233/ (Ron Paul for President - Hamilton County) => 4 days left! (17 members)
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/244/ (Hoosiers For Ron Paul - Terre Haute) => 4 days left! (31 members)
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/353/ (The Humboldt Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (19 members)
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/576/ (The Chenango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (30 members)
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/851/ (The North Shore Conservative Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (70 members)
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1088/ (North Central Ohio Ron Paul 2008 Meetup; Ron Paul rEVOLution) => 5 days left! (52 members)
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1205/ (Florida Panhandle Organizers) => 5 days left! (4 members)
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1787/ (The Muskogee Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 5 days left! (15 members)
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/671/ (iLiveFree.us a Festival and Ron Paul Warriors Meetup) => 5 days left! (72 members)
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1725/ (The Venango County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (6 members)
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1446/ (Columbia County for Ron Paul) => 7 days left! (21 members)
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1644/ (The Litchfield Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left! (21 members)
21 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1803/ (Indiana Paulitics 2008) => 7 days left! (30 members)
22 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1086/ (Ron Paul MISSISSIPPI Statewide Network) => 8 days left! (52 members)
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1843/ (The Toledo Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 8 days left! (7 members)
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1019/ (The Hilton Head/Bluffton Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 9 days left! (40 members)
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1243/ (The Kawasaki Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 9 days left! (29 members)
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1418/ (moved out) => 9 days left! (9 members)
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1575/ (WGRP Operations) => 9 days left! (3 members)
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1740/ (Truckers For Ron Paul Mobile MeetUp Fleet) => 9 days left! (4 members)
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/593/ (The West Georgia Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 9 days left! (46 members)
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/823/ (The La Junta Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 9 days left! (14 members)
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1177/ (Carroll College Students for Ron Paul 2008 - Helena, MT) => 10 days left! (13 members)
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/532/ (The Fredericksburg Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (69 members)
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1751/ (The Waterbury Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (15 members)
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/578/ (Warren County New Jersey Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (49 members)
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1273/ (The Edmonton Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (3 members)
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1274/ (MD 6th District Ron Paul Meetup Northern Baltimore County) => 12 days left! (17 members)
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1587/ (Italy for Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (4 members)
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1718/ (Bastrop County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (25 members)
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/309/ (The Nashua Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (158 members)
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/595/ (Durham / Duke for Ron Paul 2008) => 12 days left! (67 members)
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/982/ (ASU Students for Ron Paul) => 12 days left! (91 members)
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/108/ (Political Patriots) => 13 days left! (52 members)
43 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1685/ (The Fond du Lac County Ron Paul 2008 Freedom Group) => 13 days left! (3 members)
44 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/531/ (Central Virginia Ron Paul Meetup) => 13 days left! (128 members)
45 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/538/ (The Athens Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (126 members)
46 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1027/ (Silver Valley (83810,37,46,50,73..) Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 15 days left! (19 members)
47 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1066/ (The Sandpoint Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 15 days left! (58 members)
48 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1200/ (The Magee, MS Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 15 days left! (17 members)
49 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/2/ (Hillsboro Ron Paul for President 2008) => 15 days left! (30 members)
50 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/554/ (Moscow Idaho/Pullman Washington Ron Paul Meetup) => 15 days left! (70 members)
51 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/863/ (Western Arkansas/Eastern Okla Ron Paul Friends of Liberty) => 15 days left! (77 members)

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