Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/How-to


 * Pick a date/time & place - either discuss on talk page first, find out what date works best for folks; or be bold and pick something. If the place is the library, a meeting room needs to be reserved and/or restaurant reservations should be made.
 * Create the meetup page (e.g. Meetup/DC 17)
 * Update Template:Meetup
 * Add to Meetup/DC‎, which lists all our past and upcoming meetups
 * Mail to http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-dc
 * Create wiki talk spam invite (e.g. Meetup/DC/Invite/DC17)
 * Send out a notice to the invite list using Special:MassMessage
 * Post a geonotice (optional) at MediaWiki:Geonotice.js (ask User:Aude, User:Pharos, or another admin]])
 * Add to our Google Calendar:, other sites such as http://dctechevents.com can pull in the iCal feed
 * Ask User:Aude, User:Harej, and/or User:AutoGyro to tweet about the meetup. Should ideally be posted to http://identi.ca (@wikimediadc) which automatically sends the post to Twitter.
 * Ask User:Harej to post it to our Facebook page
 * Add to This Month in GLAM newsletter calendar.
 * Optionally, we can post the event on our meetup.com page.  Harej, Aude or AutoGyro can do that, and we also have an eventbrite account if that's more appropriate.
 * Post event on http://wikimediadc.org