How to start a meet up in my local area?8

[Dustin Shoemaker]

Question: how should I go about starting a meet up in my local area of Brandon , Manitoba, Canada? Who should I invite to it? Should I charge money and get pizza or some other kind of food? Thanks in advance!! Oh yeah I should mention we do have meet ups but they are 2 hours away and b/c I have full time job I can never make them, so I wanna start my own local one!! Also how do you get them to actually attend and not just sluff you off?