Hooking Up Regionally

[jimmypirate]

One feature I liked from the old borg was the regional forum where we could try to hook up with other brewers from our local areas. Any chance of something like that here Louie?

[BlackDuck]

Like the the MUG section?

[jimmypirate]

Yeah

[BlackDuck]

Yea. That was a good one. I ended up meeting Louie through a post on the MUG.

[SelfFueled]

+1

I did mention it before


Just need another subforum
Like meet up or something

[LouieMacGoo]

It is something that I am looking at, but there is a lot going on here right now and I wanted to let everyone and everything kind of settle in a little before I start adding all kinds of other group forums. It could get unruly pretty quick, (think HomeBrewTalk). I don't want to just slap things up on Borg without thinking about how it might impact the future. Bad planning can lead to a quick demise.

I promise we will get there but you will have to be patient with me!

In the mean time what would we call these groups? Hive User Groups (HUG), Borg User Groups (BUG), Collective User Groups (CUG)??? What are others suggestions?

Also what would be the best way to group them? By state, region, or area?

[Yankeedag]

BeerBorg Sectors.
and it could be by state.
locating and visitation would be easier that way.

[FrozenInTime]

Kinda afraid of meeting other brewers. I did that once, the guy quit the forum and disappeared from my area.... I'm not a good person to meet I guess.....

[Beer-lord]

OK, I'll open up my house....the French Quarter.....to everyone. See you there this weekend if the system in the gulf makes it our way.

[Yankeedag]

if you'd stop dumping them down your well, you wouldn't have that problem...

[FrozenInTime]

if you'd stop dumping them down your well, you wouldn't have that problem...

LOL, someone has to be down there to operate the hand pump when me wife wants wata in da house!

[jimjohson]

OK, I'll open up my house....the French Quarter.....to everyone. See you there this weekend if the system in the gulf makes it our way.

nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!

[joechianti]

Bad planning can lead to a quick demise.

No way. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that happen to a forum before.

[RickBeer]

Just remember that the more you subdivide, the smaller the population that visits that section. You have to balance that against having a free for all in a section that's too big.

[Crazy Climber]

RickBeer makes a good point: "Just remember that the more you subdivide, the smaller the population that visits that section."

For a group this size, one free-for-all board would probably be sufficient. It's not like there's thousands of posters all across the fruited plain here to keep a bunch of regionalized boards busy. One "users group" board with individual posts, the way the MB forum did it, would probably be just fine.

Another idea (in addition to the User Group idea, not instead of) would be to set up a BeerBorg version of the Google Map of forum members like the one someone had set up on the MB forum. Voluntary participation, of course. I would volunteer to set it up, but don't know how, and don't have a lot of spare time right now to figure it out. But, I think it could prove handy, especially when members travel ("hmm...let's see if any Borg members are near where I'm going to be traveling").