[GRLUG] The Geek Group Has a New Lab

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 15:33 +0000, Michael Mol wrote: 
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got an email from Meetup saying that there were 179 people in
> the Grand Rapids area, waiting for a group with the properties I'd
> listed, and that if I finished setting up the group, Meetup would send
> the invite.
> That's a pretty large mass-mailing. You'd think those folks would have
> gone to BarcampGR...

Do they explain what their matching mechanism is?  Having diddled around
looking at groups on Meetup, personally, I smell the now very familiar
stink of social-networking total-BS.

> I'll probably poke through that paywall, but not before the Saturday
> Social can comfortably move over towards the Geek Group location.

Care to make a wager that poking the paywall has a net-zero impact on
attendance over a three month period?


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