Meetup.com (was Re: Forked Lug Meet Lists (was RE: Fwd: Re: [Wolves] LIST))

[David Morley]

On 17/07/07, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
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> Chris Fox wrote:
> > David Morley wrote:
> >> I think part of the problem is that the list is in both single and
> >> bulk content.  People replying to the single mails and it comes
> >> through fine on the bulk though it gets referenced.  Plus we just
> >> update the website so we don't need upcoming anymore because yet again
> >> wolflug account seems to of been denied access. Plus it is now
> >> yahoo/msn upcoming.org <http://upcoming.org> :)
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> > (blimey, is getting further and further away from Rob's original point,
> > sorry!)
> >
> > I don't really think that yahoo's purchase of upcoming really makes much
> > difference either way, but if there are problems using it then it's fair
> > enough.
> >
> > However, I think that we should consider publishing the LUG meetings on
> > meetup.com - it could be a good way of allowing people to find us who
> > don't necessarily know what a LUG is. A quick search for "linux" in
> > Wolverhampton, Great Britain comes up with thirteen people who have put
> > their name forward wanting to be notified when a Linux Meetup near
> > Wolverhampton starts. There are also smaller lists of people awaiting
> > meetups specifically for RedHat, Debian and other related topics.
> >
> > If it's what people want, I'd be happy to set it all up on behalf of the
> > LUG.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Chris
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> The problem with Upcoming was that they kept on de-activating account
> and changing things without any warning.  This kept breaking the script
> that updated the home page automatically.
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> meetup.com has a problem in that they want a fee to set up an account
> ($12/month fair enough, hosting/bandwidth costs money) but they don't
> tell you this until you try to set it up!
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> - --
> Ron Wellsted


Plus I think when this subject was talked about last everyone pretty much
agreed that it worked kinda don't rock the boat.


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