Jima's right, and I think CGI is a good idea. Supplying the venues a more accurate number of attendees was the goal with Meetup but I would have prefered it to be done all in one place. I won't be using Meetup.com with the new fee policy so if someone would like to volunteer their valuable time to write a RSVP form for the Beer Meeting page it would be much appreciated. See you guys tomorrow night, Deborah > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >