[GRLUG] MEETUP LIST (Was Re: The Geek Group Has a New Lab)

[Ben Rousch]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM,  <bcreswel at morrison-ind.com> wrote:
> Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>:
>
>> On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 15:33 +0000, Michael Mol 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
>>> 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.

Depending on the topics you choose, this is entirely believable. Some
of them are extremely broad like 'Internet' or 'Computers'.

>>
>
> I was on that list. From a very long time ago (before money was required)

Only the organizer pays money, and that is for an account. Once you've
paid ($72/6 months), you can create many groups without further fees.
Members join for free.

I paid for an account to help us organize the GrWebDev, so I could now
create groups for GRPUG and GRLUG without additional fees. The biggest
downside is that the organizer's name and photo are shown on every
page related to the group. I find it annoying, especially in groups
with multiple organizers or no formal structure.


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