How to arrange meetups
While the ideal of geohashing requires no more organization than people knowing the day's coordinates, real life meetups may require a little more planning. Whether you need a ride, want people to wait for you, or simply need the reassurance that you aren't the only person from the Internet who will be venturing into your graticule today, sometimes you need more than a latitude and a longitude before you head out the door.
There are several places to look for meetups being organized. Check as many as you can, because different people and graticules do things differently. Likewise, make it easy for new or visiting geohashers to find out your plans.
In truth, most geohashing expeditions are not substantially arranged in advance. You know the place, you figure out how to get there and you go. That's why it's a spontaneous adventure generator. But if there are plans, and geohashers are encouraged to make plans, even as simple as "I'll try to get there!" the plans will probably be in one of these places.
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Additional sources
An active graticule can have other ways to announce meetups.
E-mail this user
If there are geohashers listed in the graticule, but no one appears to be discussing a meetup, you could try e-mailing someone. Visit their user page (click on the person's name) and then fill in the edit form.
Geohashing IRC channel
Sometimes wiki editing is an awkward way to discuss things, so people use the geohashing IRC channel for real time chat. If you are discussing a meetup on IRC, please, please also mention it on the wiki, even if it's just "2009-05-24 meetup currently being discussed on IRC".
Alternate Meetup
The peeron application allows you to designate and vote on an [alternate location]. It's a functionality that isn't used very often and many people get their coordinates through other means, and thus will never see your suggestion.
Facebook Groups
Some graticules have Facebook groups, but not all the graticules that have them use them. It's worth joining if you use Facebook anyway, but don't count on being notified of meetups that way.
Mailing lists
There may be a mailing list for your graticule. Check the graticule page for information on it, or any other ways they may have of propagating information about geohashes.
User pages
Sometimes the discussion about going to a geohash starts in a comment on someone's userpage. Geohashers should move such discussions to the graticule talk page or meetup page as soon as possible so that new users have a chance to see it.
Otherwise
Even if no one has announced an intention to go, and no one responds to your intent to geohash, you should still go if the location looks interesting. Some geohashers never read the wiki, just look up the coordinates and go, and it is fun to meet them.
Remember that if your longitude is less than -30 (30W), that weekday coordinates will not be available until shortly after 9:30 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time, so there is unlikely to be any conversation about a meetup before then.
