Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:55:51 -0700 From: "Hamell, Rick (LMCO)" <Rick.Hamell@nike.com> To: chat@freebsd.org, "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: RE: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks Message-ID: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com>
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I'm on the Ultima Meetup and Ufie Meetup for Portland. It's ok, but the way it makes money is via restraunts/pubs/coffee places putting their locations in for a small fee. They also get a certain number of votes weighed in so that they're guarunteed at least one meetup. So you end up getting a lot of crappy choices sometimes. You can suggest other places, but you have to be a paid member also. So it's a good concept, they just need to make money off of it and that makes for some problems. Rick > ---------- > From: Bill Moran > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:58 PM > To: chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks > > Hey, > > I've been trying for a while to get organized to get together with > fellow freenix geeks in the Pittsburgh, area. I tried hooking up > with a local LUG, but that didn't go so well. > > Recently I tripped across this meetup.com site. It doesn't seem > like anything shady or anything (although I'm not sure how they're > making money off it) > > So, basically, I'm asking anyone in the Pittsburgh area interested > in getting together to talk tech to sign up. Let's see if this > meetup.com thing can organize meetings like it says it can. > > (Hell, if you're not from Pittsburgh, I guess it's OK to sign up for > your city as well) > > No, I don't work for meetup. No, I don't get kickbacks or anything > for signing anyone up. No, this isn't a pyramid scheme (at least, > not as far as I can tell) I just got bummed last month when not > enough people signed up to make a meeting worthwhile and thought I'd > see if I could drum up some interest. > > http://bsd.meetup.com > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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