A handful of points in the very particular order that they pop into my brain:

- Technical vs networking

- Structured vs open

- Typical meeting time/venue

- How you plan to broadcast events

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One thing I love about our meetup is that we don’t have a fixed “Nth Thursday of every month,” but we do have a very active chat group. So we are often able to accommodate when friends-of-friends are in town. Or schedule when people ordinarily too far away are in the city for other reasons. Makes for a stronger network. But the tradeoff is it’s not as predictable for Internet randos…or our spouses LOL