On Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:01:53 UTC-5, John Foster wrote:
How does one get people involved locally?


Have you thought about trying to use a meetup event? https://www.meetup.com/

If you can create a meetup event, say once a month over the winter, in the larger cities perhaps there are enough interested people that would attend and that can help get the ball rolling.

Since this "new" internet thing has sucked people out of real life - we have to use it's power to pull them back out.