Perhaps would-be members are being enticed away by the Beer.js Meetup group? http://www.meetup.com/beerjs-PHX/ But seriously, maybe Meetup is a viable medium to announce PLUG meetings? I'm a member of the local Cubase group and with that I seem to get a weekly e-mail from Meetup that includes numerous local groups for Node, MongoDB, WordPress, azPHP, etc.. Jack -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt Graham Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 3:28 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: How to promote Plug's value - was: Are Social Networks ... From: Josh Coffman > tech groups in the valley have started talking about reasons > attendance and engagement seems to have dropped of across the board > in the last year or so. Several of us just had an informal meetup > to socialize and discuss the issue. Maybe it's the economic or > political environment, but sounds like this has affected all user > groups regardless of technology. The affect has been felt in person, > on discussion groups, and even social media. Over the last year or so, my workload's increased and the amount of free time I've got has gone down. As a result, I have less time for PLUGging. This is just me. YMMV. It's due to the reverse-vampire alien lizard space bat people corrupting our precious bodily fluids! -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss