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New member acquisition tricks?

Hard to believe that only 36 European guys joined this group. Is it an idea that we start looking for Europeans in the forum, and inviting them kindly via PM to join this group?

Or would that be considered spamming?

Wouldn't that be a bit like artificially inflating numbers? It's all just a status symbol or something. No real practical use.

Yeah, I created this group when the new feature was added, not really knowing how it might be used. I am still not sure how to use it and so never even check here for messages!

Robin, in other groups , SoCal etc., the members are using this feature to organise gatherings etc. I think that could be done for Europe too, but probably the members here don't want such a thing. In the end 'Europe' is something completely different than 'Southeastern Australia' or US....

True. Maybe more specific groups are a better idea. But even then, there are not enough people geographically near me to make that meaningful. If I found more than one other Pentax user in my city I'd be excited.

Can't speak for Europe

But in The Netherlands we already have a www.pentaxforum.nl
114741 messages, 10502 topics, 1441 members

Also in The Netherlands people often think a one hour travel as "too much", so a gathering somewhere in Europe is perhaps a little optimistic...

There's a Pentax group too in Poland, but it's all in Polish unfortunately and as such I think it's kinda hard to read for me. I can only speak and read a little Polish so I'm a little outta luck there. I would be willing to do a meet up with a bunch of forum members :-)

And a Pentaxian.BE/NL, which is a bit smaller, consisting of partly the same, but partly other member too....

Haha, I live near a small city in the Netherlands, Wageningen. 2 of my colleagues and 2 of my friends, all in Wageningen, shoot Pentax....

Yeah,

the best feature of the regional groups is to organize gatherings. However, in Europe as has been said, that's all covered.

In Germany and for Pentax, the following are the important forums:

- DigitalFotoNetz.de :: Index
Pentax only, same size as pentaxforums.com (0.942186 million posts) and no, they do not run a million post contest.

- DSLR-Forum
Not just Pentax, but 6.5 million posts while pentaxforums.com tries hard to reach 1 million. And Like Olympus, Pentax accounts to about 1/2 of Nikon and 1/4 of Canon traffic. Which makes it a Pentax forum about the size of pentaxforums.com too.

Most of the regional gatherings are organized by these forums and my city even has a local photo enthusiast meeting site (Photo Walk Munich aka PWM).


However, a few events are pan European and using the Europa group of this forum would make sense.

One such example is the Photokina event in Cologne later this year.

Hey guys (and girls), I joined too, I am dutch, I live in Germany and I got married in Denmark. European enough?

Et un de plus, je suis français, je vis dans les alpes près du mont blanc ! bises

En France aussi nous avons plusieurs forums Pentax qui en plus de l echange d informations organisent des sorties surtout sur le plan regional. On va meme jusqu a organiser une sortie pour un seul pentaxiste venant dans notre propre region. Vu qu'on connait bien sa propre region, il est facile de le mener aux endroits les plus photogeniques. Ici sur pentaxforum on pourrait en faire de meme sous reserve du probleme de la langue. Une journee dediee a un pentaxiste europeens peut etre un tres bon echange.

Haha (not), I see, that Europe is still that much divided, as 50 years ago, before the EU. It is really sad, that people not joining their strengths here in this unified field...

Forcibly we cannot gather more people, IMHO pm would be such a thing. Some other motivation?

Hi, I am french, living close to Bordeaux in the South West...