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Hey all, I am running a Web Engineering Meetup [1] for more than six years. Every month, we have an event with mostly two talks each 30 minutes and ~40 up to 60 participants. A friend and I started this meetup to learn from others, and we still do. But for some reason, I lose motivation to run it. It is not a challenge/exiting anymore. Organizing the meetup feels like work, wherein the beginning it was "just dropping a few emails".

I don't feel that I have a Return on Investment of running those. I am not talking about money. We run it 100% non-profit. I have a huge network based on the meetup, but I don't use it. I am not looking for a new job or anything related. The challenge is missing. The excitement is gone.

Therefore i am asking myself, whats next? What can we do with this crowd (without losing the trust)? We are organizing a small community conference [2], and it was sold out in 10 days. Handing this meetup to someone is tricky. I didn't find someone who cares so much about this, and I don't want to see this thing to die.

Any idea what's next? Any tips from your side? Any thoughts or feedback? Feel free to ask questions for more context.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/Web-Engineering-Duesseldorf/ [2] https://localhost.engineering/