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Austin, Texas, US

Austin-area Meet & Greet

This is an on-going thread for the Austin-area M&G. It is a chance to meet and network with photographers, models and others in the field. There is no fee or anything to join. Just a chance to meet each other.

Meetings are generally held the third Saturday every other month (odd numbered months) in the early afternoon in a central location.

I will post specific information on the next meeting shortly.

May 07 14 12:15 pm Link

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Rik Austin

Posts: 12164

Austin, Texas, US

Austin area Meet & Greet:

——Saturday the 17th at 1:30 pm.
——BJ's Brewhouse at the Arbor Walk right off Mopac (and close to 183)
( http://www.bjsrestaurants.com/locations … arbor-walk )

It is a chance to meet and network with photographers, models and others in the field. There is no fee or anything to join. Just a chance to meet each other.

Right now it looks like about twenty will be there. Please let me know if you are interested so I can give the restaurant a rough head count.

May 08 14 07:44 am Link

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The Grand Artist

Posts: 468

Fort Worth, Texas, US

wish we had this in Dallas

May 10 14 06:34 am Link

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Rik Austin

Posts: 12164

Austin, Texas, US

The Grand Artist wrote:
wish we had this in Dallas

Just set one up. Anyone can do it. First, just make sure there isn't a group in your area. Then decide how wide an area you want to include and if you want to make it open to all or just a photographers group.

Then the fun part. Ha, ha. The lots of work part. What I did was to send out thirty messages to members i "knew" though MM. Asked them if they were interested and if so what times and rough location would work for them. Eight of us met the first time. Had a good time and discussed where we wanted to go from there.

Then the real work. I wanted to start with a manageable size for a restaurant so I decide to keep the group to about 30. To get that I ended up sending out around 200 invites. There are around 600 in the area so I set the browser to show me those with the most recent activity. Unfortunately each time you do another search the group change. I didn't catch that to start with and lost a whole set of 40 tabs I had saved. Also for still unknown reasons the searches aren't 100% accurate. I know I missed people but that's the best you can do.

Just pick the size you want and go from there. Ask those folks to tell their friends and to let them know they weren't excluded on purpose.

I'll expand this group as we go and try to catch new members and those that show recent activity that I have missed before. Still won't be perfect but hopefully with others telling their friends and this tread we'll get the word out.

May 12 14 07:31 am Link

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The Grand Artist

Posts: 468

Fort Worth, Texas, US

I will give it a go and see what happens. Seems like everyone in Dallas in interested in hosting $200 nude workshops. Not really my cup of tea.

May 12 14 07:38 am Link

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Rik Austin

Posts: 12164

Austin, Texas, US

Everyone wants to make money but if you are willing to put in the time an area M&G is a great idea. Some of them even set up group shots occasionally.

If you have any questions let me know.

May 14 14 06:59 am Link