<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Below you will see why I personally don't much care for <a href="http://meetup.com">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">meetup.com</a>.<div>It appears that the baypiggies group (pertaining to the python programming environment) has come to rely on <a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> then let its ownership of the baypiggies affiliation on meetup expire. </div><div>It got taken over by someone now trying to charge a fee for going to meetings. </div><div>Crazy.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it also illustrates, somewhat indirectly, why not letting a domain registration expire is important else someone else can take it over.</div><div>Mark Weisler<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">William Deegan <<a href="mailto:bdbaddog@gmail.com">bdbaddog@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">January 15, 2016 9:21:18 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Baypiggies <<a href="mailto:baypiggies@python.org">baypiggies@python.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Baypiggies] NOTICE: <a href="http://meetup.com/baypiggies">http://meetup.com/baypiggies</a> is no longer associated with baypiggies users group</b><br></span></div><br><div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>You may have received a notice in December that there was going to be a $20 membership fee for the meetup.</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently the baypiggies meetup sponsorship got dropped and <span style="font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;white-space:nowrap">Suresh B Velagapudi</span></div><div> took over the group and started charging a membership fee.</div><div><br></div><div><b>If you thought this meant that baypiggies was going to charge a membership fee and you paid the fee, I URGE you contact <a href="http://meetup.com/">meetup.com</a> and ask for a refund.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Baypiggies is attempting to retrieve the meetup group, but until we do (if we can), please look to the mailing list and <a href="http://baypiggies.net/">baypiggies.net</a> website for updates on the group.</div><div><br></div><div>If not we may be forced to create a meetup with a new name.</div><div><br></div><div>Glen Jarvis has volunteered to publish baypiggies meetups on his meetup <a href="x-msg://8/(http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-python">(http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-python</a>) (at least in the near term). Please keep in mind that that meetup is for his business and will continue to be going forward. A special thanks go Glen for allowing baypiggies to use it in the interim.</div><div><br></div><div>-Bill Deegan</div><div>BayPiggies website admin and long time member.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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