On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Kraig Jones wrote: > This announcement comes as bad news to me: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/0359253&tid=187&tid=215&tid=98 Wow. That's annoying. While I can't exactly fault them (we all gotta make money, right?), it's still frustrating to lose out on a resource like that (unless we want to pool the fee). > I've only had the chance to attend one beer meeting so far that was > organized through Meetup.com, but I thoroughly enjoyed that one. BIG > THANKS DEBORAH!. But I think this new fee is outrageously high. $19 a > year, maybe, maybe... but a month! So screw 'em. I haven't had a chance to attend since Deb picked up the Coordinator post (time/schedule constraints, whee), but I know that the job has largely been undervalued. Mad props to her. > Seems it shouldn't be too hard to reorganize beer meetings through this > list. Comments? Wow, ancient history coming back. We used to announce here, but the RSVP factor was always an issue (and pissed off quite a few venues, thanks to our attendance guesstimates). One would think that it wouldn't be too hard to drum up a CGI to deal with that, though. Jima former beer meeting announcer