Read the data: Meetup is a commercial operation that charges a fee and has other "ownership" conditions that are not clearly stated. My comments are only about avoiding selling our names by giving out the mailing list to Meetup, and only that. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetup_%28website%29> _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 6:27 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] [ubuntu-us-mn] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! Chuck, It's a secondary means to get people to know about it. There is no requirement for you or anyone to register for it - in fact I can see everything going on in my area RIGHT NOW without entering a single piece of personal information. It tells me where, when, who hosts. and I don't have to sign up. Take a look at the MSP WP group post: http://www.meetup.com/Minneapolis-St-Paul-WordPress-User-Group/ On Mar 14, 2015, at 6:16 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: Bull. Your personal issues with it are on topic - you brought it up in the first place. On Mar 14, 2015, at 02:53, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: Irrelevant. Off topic _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 2:30 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] [ubuntu-us-mn] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! I'm taking about you. You have choice. Everyone has choice. On Mar 13, 2015, at 22:35, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: John said he did sign up. Meetup has required signup. Not clear that is no longer required. _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:15 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] [ubuntu-us-mn] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! You. Do. Not. Need. To. Sign. Up. For. It. Perhaps you missed it but he said already he keeps posting it to the website. On Mar 13, 2015, at 22:10, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 9:46 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Cc: Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team Subject: Re: [tclug-list] [ubuntu-us-mn] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! Wow. Posting it somewhere else to get more people doesn't mean you have to register for the site. Meetup does, Get your head out of your keister. On Mar 13, 2015, at 21:06, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: Publicity might not require selling the mailing list as Meetup requires. _____ From: ubuntu-us-mn-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-us-mn-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John Frisk Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 3:50 PM To: Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team Cc: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-mn] [tclug-list] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! I respect people may not want to be a part of meetup due to privacy concerns. I have the intention of continuing to communicate the meetings using the penguinsunbound.com <http://penguinsunbound.com/> website. But as the coordinator of the group the benefits were enough to cover the organizer dues myself rather than trying to maintain self managed software. Anyone concerned can continue to reference the website for meeting times. I also felt we as a group could grow from the other IT professionals in the twin cities already on meetup that may not be aware of the group if they never had heard of us before. On Mar 13, 2015 2:45 PM, "Chuck Cole" <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: Meetup is a commercial firm that requires groups to pay group dues and submit their member lists for their advertising purposes. Not private or self-governed. Many may not want their names submitted to this commercial operation. I'd like to hear of Penguins things, but not this way. Chuck _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of John Frisk Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:56 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List; Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team; penguinsunbound-announce at lists.ties2.net Subject: [tclug-list] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! Hello everyone, We have created a meetup site for Penguins Unbound. This should enable us to better communicate group activities, meeting times, place availability, etc. I hope all interested will join meetup and RSVP for the March 21st 10AM meeting so I can get accurate attendance numbers. This will also help on topic interest and meeting place requirements. (Future dates will be added once I get time). The site: http://www.meetup.com/PenguinsUnbound/ I plan on talking a bit about piwigo (the open source gallery software) http://piwigo.org/ David may present some material he's been working on about customer success in SaaS. I am waiting for confirmation on the place but will announce it once that is completed. More to come! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150314/881d6687/attachment.html>