Jack, Hans:

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:11 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 04. May, 2013 schwätzte Jack Hildwine so:
>
> moin moin,
>
>  Perhaps would-be members are being enticed away by the Beer.js Meetup
>> group?
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/beerjs-**PHX/ <http://www.meetup.com/beerjs-PHX/>
>
> Houston LUG has followed the recommendations for LUGS and has a social
group arm on meetup.com (because they have funding and donations that users
can write off on their income taxes).  The users themselves can promote a
party or a special event - loosely, openly - it works well.

>
>>
> We've had that much longer than they have been around.
>
> http://www.lufthans.com/Free_**Software_Stammtisch#East_**Valley<http://www.lufthans.com/Free_Software_Stammtisch#East_Valley>
>
> The advantage of ours is you don't have to talk about JavaScript ;-).
>
>  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
>>
>
> Cubase is music studio software?
>
>  get a weekly e-mail from Meetup that includes numerous local groups for
>> Node, MongoDB, WordPress, azPHP, etc..
>>
>
> Meetup certainly has a lot of visibility and shows up in search engine
> results. The problem is the tamagutchi requirements where if you don't
> post something every couple of days it wants to lock your account and
> claim that you're dead.
>
> It was really, really annoying to me, so I stopped using it. This was for
> a German group and lots of people found us via meetup, so I know it was
> working. I just didn't have time to keep hitting the feedme button.
>
> If someone else wants to, though, that would be awesome. If you actually
> participate in meetup, then it's probably much easier. The same with the
> other social media groups.
>

I would love to start a meetup, but I want to be able to donate to a
Non-profit where I can write off the donations.
I would love to see people be able to promote all the types of get
togethers and meetings irregardless of structure to attract to our
successful endeavors.

>
> We should also be able to automate publishing meeting events and some
> other updates to most social media sites.


I fully agree.

>
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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