Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:48 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Hamell, Rick (LMCO)" <Rick.Hamell@nike.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks Message-ID: <3F4E1CA4.3030506@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> References: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com>
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Hamell, Rick (LMCO) wrote: > 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. That doesn't sound too unfair. I mean, the venues get extra business from the deal, sounds fair that they should foot the bill. I just can't believe how difficult it is to get people together. It appears as though this posting to chat@ resulted in 1 person signing up for the BSD meetups. *sigh* ... oh well, I guest it's back to wandering into bars and listening to people tell me how wonderful their Windows DVD burner is when it doesn't crash. >>---------- >>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
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