Chicago needs one of these on a Saturday
Community Insight: Exploring Ideas for Local Community Activities
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I really enjoyed the community meetups in the early days of OnePlus. The Street Art London Tour was a highlight. A couple dozen of us were taken on a tour around Shoreditch to see the street art (some of it hidden) and learn about the artists behind them. It was really interesting and everyone went for drinks afterwards. Bubble football was also a laugh.
Eight years later and I have a young family and not much time off to venture to London for meetups, sadly. If it helps:
You’ll need a destination with great transport links or a dense population. London is easy for most Southerners in the UK to get to, but I’d suggest any meetups that are arranged in the week should be from 6:30pm because people have work and need time to travel (I’ve had issues with this); alternatively, weekends or Bank Holidays.
In-person events have to be really worthwhile to attract people who are further afield.
I recommend going on a street art tour (seen the new Banksy’s?), but a ‘how to de-Google and privatise your smartphone’ workshop is appealing to me. That could be done online though, but nothing beats drinks and a pizza.
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RohitPakalapati keep in Ahmedabad, India. I can connect you with the photography and Heritage club of my university. We have done a lot of heritage photowalks but with professional cameras and our phones. Let’s do it with some nothing devices. It would be a great idea connecting with some university. I will help you in all the procedures to make this event happen. Just your little support is needed. Ahmedabad is India’s First UNESCO World Heritage City.
University: Ahmedabad University https://ahduni.edu.in/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=gmb-listing&utm_campaign=gmb-ahmedabad-university
Allelujah I’m always down for coffee and friends
RohitPakalapati Having been on a few community meetings ups, photowalks are a nice way to go and see different parts of a City, whilst casually socialising with others. However, not everyone will be a budding photographer, so other ideas could include just a meetup over coffee, community games events or something simple like a park meet and then just chill out and chat with other like minded individuals. For London specifically, there are plenty of entertainment based activity locations that also include food and drink, a great way to spend the evening having fun with community!
RohitPakalapati important thread! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s replies!
also I’d like to see more arcade nights. Think it only ever happend the once all way down London. Be cool to see more right across UK Fun way to spend time with community members
I am keen on hosting a photo walk around Edinburgh or Glasgow or Scotland
RohitPakalapati I am all in for it would be great if we can plan for it.