Hello, hello

[zvi]

I must confess, I've never run one of these communities before, so I don't have a very clear vision for it. I do know that I'd like to be a little more out and about locally, so I figured this was one way to start.

The only current rules are "Be excellent to one another" and "Keep it local." If somebody who has more experienced with a geographic based comm wants to offer some pointers, I'd love to hear them.

Suggested topics for discussion: food; shopping; local clubs of any and every sort (for instance, I created the literally_lesbians_feed, which is a feed for a lesbian bookclub that meets monthly in DC, announcing the feed or announcing the meetings and books is on topic); local politics (which, okay, in DC that can have some pretty far-reaching implications, so just use your common sense); breaking news; freecycling; cultural events, or even just saying, "Hey, I wanna go to the Air and Space museum on X date, anyone want to come with?"

P.S. Anybody have any idea how we should arrange our tags?

Comments

[cyprinella]

Some good tags may be DC FAQs like stuff about different neighborhoods in the metro area and touristy stuff. Those are pretty common posts on the LJ comm.

[gblvr]

I second this -- maybe also some specific tags for GLBTQ stuff?

[zvi]

What's the LJ comm, mayhaps I will go study their tags?

[cyprinella]

washingtondc

Although mostly their tags suck for that sort of stuff (and aren't used very frequently), which is why I was suggesting them.