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What is Fed Meetup?

Say you're organizing an in-person event for your federal organization, and your team is scattered across the country. How do you pick the most cost-effective destination for everyone to travel to?

Fed Meetup helps federal employees compare travel costs between destinations for group travel. It uses GSA City Pair and Per Diem rates to automatically calculate estimates for airfare, lodging, and meals & incidentals—no more manually looking up rates for dozens of travel combinations.

Simply input your travel details, add all the travelers and their locations, and select the destinations you want to compare. Some agencies even have presets to quickly compare across all agency locations. Fed Meetup calculates all the different origin-destination combinations and ranks destinations based on total airfare and per diem costs.

Why Was Fed Meetup Created?

Simple: taxpayer dollars matter. Federal agencies should understand cost differences between destinations for group travel. Group events can easily cost five or six figures from travel alone, depending on how many people are traveling. Understanding destination costs can save taxpayers thousands of dollars per "meetup."

For more, see my blog post Introducing Fed Meetup.

Who is behind Fed Meetup? Who can I reach out to if I have questions or suggestions?

I'm Jake Weidokal 👋 Hi! I am was a civil servant with NASA. I worked for the NASA Safety Center as part of the application development team and was responsible for product management of web apps used by safety professionals. I enjoy solving problems with software.

If you want to know more about me, check out my blog or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Questions or Suggestions?

If you have a question or suggestion, you can reach me at jake@weidok.al. I'm a real person who genuinely wants to help 🙂