How do I start a group/discussion/meeting in my town?

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I am a software engineer and I live in a not very active town. I like the idea of contributing to the community in some way, and I would like the idea of starting meetings, a group, something like that where we could discuss about technology, learn things, discuss projects/ideas etc.

How would you do that from scratch?

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https://www.meetup.com/ makes it very easy to start a group -- you can then promote it and get people to attend and tell others

I've started a group over a decade ago, there are 500 members on the meetup.com site and we have anywhere from half a dozen to 20-30 people show up at any given meeting.

Meetup is unfortunately not very popular here (i'm not in the US)

Where are you based?

Take your idea to your local public library. They might be able to help or give suggestions of paths you could follow.

that's a more feasible idea in this area. I'd might do this

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