NY Video 2.0 - September Meetup (NewTeeVee Pier Screening)

“ This meetup never starts at the advertised time. This one started one and 1/2 hours late. The content was great but not starting until 9:30 PM was rally bad. Starting late disresp[ects attendees. In the future not excuses for starting late please. ”

“ The notices I saw about the meetup said that it would start at 8:00. I got there at 8, and nothing happened until 8:45, when the meetup organizers congratulated themselves for 'starting early.' Apparently, on some of the other places where this meeting was published, the start time was listed as 8:30. Since I had only budgeted about an hour and a half for this meeting, I had to leave about 1/2 hour after it started. It was a terrible waste of my evening. ”

“ NewTeeVee, like other West-Coast based organizations, needs to recognize the fact that when they do their events in NYC, they need to take into account NYers' work schedules. Events here tend to start between 6:30 and 7:30 PM and end by 10. Otherwise, the videos shown were pretty fun to watch. ”

“ Beer or no beer, the MeetUp was scheduled to start at 8 pm & you should have started on time. About 1/3 of the audience left before you began. It was a good session but it was really irritating to come on time and have to wait 45+ minutes before the actual program began. ”

“ Never again ”

“ I usually love this meet-up and learn a ton and meet great people...but not last night. I arrived a few minutes before 8 as the event was advertised as starting at 8. A few minutes afterwards, an announcement was made that the event would start at 8:30. By 8:45 the event hadn't yet begun. So I left. I make time to go to these kind of things to learn of new technologies and companies and talent to help me do my job better. So the announcement of a "free drink" later did not mitigate how irritated I was to have spent 45 minutes waiting in a freezing cold auditorium after a long day of work. ”

“ It was too late at night- I think that sort of limited the turnout. You'll probably attract more people in New York with an event during happy hour-timeframe. ”