From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 07:56:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457BE16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from barrierb241.nike.com (barrier.nike.com [146.197.27.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3965843FBD for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rick.Hamell@nike.com) Received: from barrierb241.nike.com (root@localhost) by barrierb241.nike.com with ESMTP id h7SEu4C11254; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beavertn-svr-r9 (beavertn-svr-r9.nike.com [146.197.20.109]) by barrierb241.nike.com with ESMTP id h7SEu2o11171; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 146.197.1.183 by beavertn-svr-n9 with SMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:55:57 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: F122D6CD-24F0-4253-8986-549FB7942DF9 Received: from beavertn-svr-a0.nike.com (exchange.nike.com [146.197.251.36]) by cammail1.nike.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7SEtvP25130; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by exchange.nike.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:55:57 -0700 Message-ID: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> From: "Hamell, Rick (LMCO)" To: chat@freebsd.org, "'Bill Moran'" Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:55:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 1350C877658889-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:56:33 -0000 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" > >