I looked into the "meetup" things a year or so ago and got really disgusted with their control schemes to gain advertising and membership lists. The "coordinator" becomes their shill and deflects the appearance of spam. I have a strong aversion to having any connection with "meetups". TCLUG Beer Meetings are appealing. Have tried to attend those, but I have had conflicts getting there (arrived too late for several) and would not consider downtown Minneapolis as a venue except in a few cases like Black Forest Inn that actually have free parking. Sorry to see Jima's reign end. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jima > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:16 AM > To: Kraig Jones > Cc: TCLUG-list > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Beer Meetings > > > 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