This 100%, but a warning, this consistency also applies to the people meeting. And that is much more difficult to encourage than anything else. Funding, organizing and advertising meetups ends up being the easy part.

I have run a LUG now for half a year now, and it has been impossible to get people to meet up more than once. This is regardless of content, free food, event weeks, high quality talks by members, encouraging social interactions, holding discussions with experts on interested topics, etc.

Mind you, the members we have are still fiercely for the LUG to continue, they do not want to see it gone, but also continue not showing up. I have worked with frequent members individually to try and find alternatives like better time slots, as many complain about being "busy", but I have now learned its really not a time issue either.

Not really sure why its so hard getting people to show, it just is, even if you give people exactly what they want plus unique spins on topics that are cheered on in the public channel when announced, but follows to nobody showing up.

> [...] they do not want to see it gone, but also continue not showing up.

Could it be you need more than one social channel that funnels the group from one place to the next? That would improve their sense of belonging raise the stakes.

In my case, we have a website [0], a Discord, and a couple of conferences. The meetups are strongly tied to these other channels and that seems to do the trick.

[0] https://handmade.network