[conspire] Cautionary Tale: Fwd: [Baypiggies] NOTICE: http://meetup.com/baypiggies is no longer associated with baypiggies users group

[Dan Bikle]

The recent history of that Meetup is a tragedy.

It took years to build up membership of that Meetup.

Then Suresh took it over and kicked out anyone who refused to give him
money.

Within a short period of time the social-graph embedded inside that Meetup,
evaporated like a collection of water molecules following a path to higher
entropy.

Hopefully Glen and others can build up another awesome Python Meetup.

Moral: If you control a mechanism which connects a community, hold it dear.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Mark Weisler (mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us):
>
> > Below you will see why I personally don't much care for meetup.com and
> instead prefer simple e-mail lists and Web sites maintained by organization
> members, not intermediaries like meetup.com.
>
> Other reasons here:
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html
>
> (No offence intended to any number of wonderful people who run Meetups.)
>
> > It appears that the baypiggies group (pertaining to the python
> > programming environment) has come to rely on meetup.com then let its
> > ownership of the baypiggies affiliation on meetup expire.  It got
> > taken over by someone now trying to charge a fee for going to
> > meetings.  Crazy.
> >
> > I think it also illustrates, somewhat indirectly, why not letting a
> > domain registration expire is important else someone else can take it
> > over.
>
> Indeed.  Fortunately for BayPIGgies, they've avoided that error pitfall
> wso far.  (baypiggies.net)
>
>
>
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