<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m very sad to hear that, especially as the founder of BayPIGgies.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Dan Bikle <<a href="mailto:dan.bikle@gmail.com" class="">dan.bikle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">The recent history of that Meetup is a tragedy.<br class=""><br class="">It took years to build up membership of that Meetup.<br class=""><br class="">Then Suresh took it over and kicked out anyone who refused to give him money.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Hopefully Glen and others can build up another awesome Python Meetup.<br class=""><br class="">Moral: If you control a mechanism which connects a community, hold it dear.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank" class="">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Mark Weisler (<a href="mailto:mark@weisler-saratoga-ca.us" class="">mark@weisler-saratoga-ca.us</a>):<br class="">
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> Below you will see why I personally don't much care for <a href="http://meetup.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">meetup.com</a> and instead prefer simple e-mail lists and Web sites maintained by organization members, not intermediaries like <a href="http://meetup.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">meetup.com</a>.<br class="">
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</span>Other reasons here:<br class="">
<a href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html</a><br class="">
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(No offence intended to any number of wonderful people who run Meetups.)<br class="">
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> It appears that the baypiggies group (pertaining to the python<br class="">
> programming environment) has come to rely on <a href="http://meetup.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">meetup.com</a> then let its<br class="">
> ownership of the baypiggies affiliation on meetup expire. It got<br class="">
> taken over by someone now trying to charge a fee for going to<br class="">
> meetings. Crazy.<br class="">
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> I think it also illustrates, somewhat indirectly, why not letting a<br class="">
> domain registration expire is important else someone else can take it<br class="">
> over.<br class="">
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</span>Indeed. Fortunately for BayPIGgies, they've avoided that error pitfall<br class="">
wso far. (<a href="http://baypiggies.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">baypiggies.net</a>)<br class="">
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