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How many members are in your local Esperanto club?

by Alkanadi, August 12, 2015

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Alkanadi (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 7:51:10 AM

How many members are in your local Esperanto club?

Is your local club trying to attract new members? If so, what difficulties are you facing?

Alkanadi (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 8:47:26 AM

( Tchey ):You should add "i don't have access to a local club" option. I'd be curious to see the results !
Good idea. I can't change it now though. The edit option doesn't allow changing the polls.

erinja (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 12:18:15 PM

If you want to do a new poll, one suggestion is to split the low end. There's a big difference between a five member club and 10, but not much difference between, say, 40 and 50.

I'd start it at 0-5, then 5-10.

Armand6 (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 12:39:14 PM

Alkanadi:How many members are in your local Esperanto club?
Our Esperanto club closed in 2002, and I cannot choose anything suitable.

Bruso (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 12:51:28 PM

It's a couple hours either way to either of the nearest clubs to me (Washington DC or Pittsburgh). If there was a big event, I'd probably check it out, but that's a bit far for regular small meetings.

FractalBloom (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 3:04:10 PM

The Utah group UTELO has a webpage and references to it all over the place, but as far as I can tell it is defunct. Disappointing given that back in 2001 the USA kongreso was held at my university. Trying to start a new Salt Lake City group but as of yet I have encountered 0 esperantists here.

ravana (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 4:27:59 PM

I can not anser becouse i just went to a few corses but i know that they have official 2 workers .

erinja (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 6:12:03 PM

FractalBloom:The Utah group UTELO has a webpage and references to it all over the place, but as far as I can tell it is defunct. Disappointing given that back in 2001 the USA kongreso was held at my university. Trying to start a new Salt Lake City group but as of yet I have encountered 0 esperantists here.
There is a common but unfortunate thing that hosting a congress can kill off local groups. It doesn't happen every time, by any means, but it's known to happen. People do a lot of work, some people don't pull their weight, a few people end up doing most of the heavy lifting, and people get sick of it and stop bothering to be involved after the event is over.

Something like that happened in DC. After we hosted the 2010 Landa Kongreso, the group was markedly less active than before (not that it was ever super active) and things are only picking up a bit more now as far as activities because of some fresh blood that wasn't around for the LK.

Tempodivalse (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 6:49:31 PM

erinja:
FractalBloom:The Utah group UTELO has a webpage and references to it all over the place, but as far as I can tell it is defunct. Disappointing given that back in 2001 the USA kongreso was held at my university. Trying to start a new Salt Lake City group but as of yet I have encountered 0 esperantists here.
There is a common but unfortunate thing that hosting a congress can kill off local groups. It doesn't happen every time, by any means, but it's known to happen. People do a lot of work, some people don't pull their weight, a few people end up doing most of the heavy lifting, and people get sick of it and stop bothering to be involved after the event is over.

Something like that happened in DC. After we hosted the 2010 Landa Kongreso, the group was markedly less active than before (not that it was ever super active) and things are only picking up a bit more now as far as activities because of some fresh blood that wasn't around for the LK.
I wonder if these large-scale Esperanto congresses are really worth it, in the connected digital age. I much prefer chatting with local Esperantists in an informal setting to going to some massive convention where I know nobody (and I've heard from many people that the national and international congresses can be very lonely places if you don't know anyone already).

lagtendisto (User's profile) August 12, 2015, 7:32:42 PM

Tempodivalse:I wonder if these large-scale Esperanto congresses are really worth it, in the connected digital age. I much prefer chatting with local Esperantists in an informal setting to going to some massive convention where I know nobody (and I've heard from many people that the national and international congresses can be very lonely places if you don't know anyone already).
In my opinion large-scale Esperanto congresses are wasted money. I could be wrong but round about money wasted with proud of E-o event UK in Lille instead of it would allow to finance five 300 person events (i.e. like IJK) and seven/eight less-than 100 person events (i.e. like FESTO).

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