If you’re involved with your local meetup (or want to start one), you should be following along the current series on the Make WordPress Events blog from Aaron Jorbin discussing meetup best practices. Today’s comments were surprisingly thorough over a simple topic: refreshments. In Birmingham, we meet in the very awesome upstairs of a bar. So people can buy their own beer or soda, and we’ve always had happy meetupers. Maybe the barrier to entry to starting a meetup in your area is lower than you think?