Our hosts
Room for More is more than one person now, and this is the page that says who. Every event here is run by somebody who chose to run it, and I think you should be able to see who that is before you turn up.
The statuses below are about how well I know someone's hosting, not about how good they are. Everyone starts at the top of that list and most people stay there a while.
Certified host
Martin knows them, has seen them host, and vouches for them. They can run events on their own.
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Martin
The Wednesday mingle, the Friday pub crawl, Monday board games and Saturday calisthenics
Martin moved to Oslo after a long stretch of travelling and found himself lonelier here than he
expected. He started Room for More a few months later, on the theory that if it was that hard to
meet people in this city, it was probably that hard for plenty of other people too. He runs most
of the weekly nights himself and is usually the one standing near the door, because the hardest
part of walking into a room alone is the first minute of it.Hosted with us: Day trip from Oslo to Fredrikstad with Denis, Room for More at Sakura, Lillestrøm — night 2, Room for More at Sakura, Lillestrøm — night 1 of 2, After-work mingle: meet people in Oslo (every Wednesday), Oslo pub crawl (every Friday), Monday board games in Oslo (No Stress at Strøget)
The events named here are the listings on this site. Anything run before the site existed, or on Meetup only, won't be counted.
Whatever any of them has coming up is on the events page, same as everything else. You can come alone, most people do, and there's nothing you need to know or bring beyond what the listing says.
What the statuses mean
New host. Running their own events with us for the first while. Martin is around for these. They've had the conversation, read the host guides, and agreed how we work together before their first one.
Certified host. Martin knows them, has seen them host, and vouches for them. They can run events on their own. It means I've seen them run at least two events with nothing left hanging, and I'm happy to put my name behind theirs.
Super host. Certified, and they have kept going. They also help other hosts get started and cover when someone can't make it. This one takes months rather than events, because the thing it's actually measuring is that somebody stuck around.
I decide these myself and I'll say so plainly if that ever changes for someone. A quiet event run well counts the same as a busy one.
The places that host us
The hosts are half of it. Every standing night has a venue that gives us a table or an area we can count on, week after week, and they deserve a mention by name. The listing for each night has the address and the practical bits.
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No Stress at Strøget
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YNG Bar and Social
If you run a place in Oslo and a night like this sounds like something you'd want in it, there's a page for venues about how that works.
Want to host something?
It starts with a conversation, not a form. If there's something you'd like to run, or you'd rather be the second person at somebody else's event first, which is honestly the easier way in, get in touch and we'll work out what fits.
You don't need to have done this before. I hadn't either, the first time.