On Listing Meetings In San Diego

    The city of San Diego requires a different approach than we usually use for listing meetings. In short, we show about 473 English-language A. A. meetings here, as well as another 135+ meetings conducted in Spanish, which are listed on their own page. That comes to more than 600 meetings each week, spread among some 35 neighborhoods and towns. These are too many for even ourselves to squeeze into a single page. (Actually, it's simple to do it, but the idea of these listings is to make it easier to find the meetings, not make it even more of a challenge.)

    When possible, we try to list nearby meetings together on larger, area-wide 'master pages', bringing the viewer first to those pages, with the option to then connect to pages for more limited areas, if needed. Smaller pages usually are also available for towns or areas with (roughtly) two or more meetings each day.

    For this there are three reasons – to offer full information on what is available at a single glance; to minimize the need to jump from page to page; and to strengthen our sense of the broader A. A. around us, beyond our own groups, neighborhoods and towns.

    In the case of San Diego County, outside the city boundaries of San Diego, this gives us 10 master pages, covering roughly 800 meetings in 100 towns. This includes a page for all 38 Imperial County meetings to the east. All fairly manageable, as far as we know.

    In the case of the city of San Diego, there are no obvious geographic or civic features (cf. Albuquerque, NM) that would help to naturally divide the whole into 5 or 6 more manageable pages.

    For now, we handle this in the following way – until a better method is found.

    First, it happens that the 22 neighborhoods listed above, each with relatively few meetings, together make up a page (this one) with 97 meetings. This is still large but, as the expression goes, manageable.

    This still leaves 368 English-speaking meetings in another 11 areas ... almost none of them contiguous. For the time being, the best plan seems to be to have distinct pages for each, as follows, incorporating nearby neighborhoods when possible (as indicated by a *) – Centre City, Clairemont*, Downtown San Diego, Golden Hill, Hillcrest, Mira Mesa, North Park, Pacific Beach and La Jolla, Southwest San Diego South San Diego and University Heights.

    As with all we do in A. A., we rely on each other for meeting information. Where questions seem especially important to clear up, we have added a little pop-up note  (Help!), alerting our viewers and asking for your help.

    Please let us know – s.i.meetings@gmail.com – of any corrections, additions, subtractions and suggestions you may have – so that, together, we can let those who need us know where to find us.

 

Meeting Makers Make It ... but they need to know where the meetings are!

This online listing of A. A. meetings is put together from many sources, including local and central office meeting directories, the listings of local clubs and community resources, and direct information from the groups and members involved.

    It is offered as a free service to anybody who can use it, and is unaffiliated with any official body – or any organization at all, for that matter.