From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 08:15:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C9D16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta8.adelphia.net (mta8.adelphia.net [68.168.78.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AA043FF7 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta8.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030828151550.VYHG18971.mta8.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4E1CA4.3030506@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:15:48 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hamell, Rick (LMCO)" References: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> In-Reply-To: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F400@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:15:53 -0000 Hamell, Rick (LMCO) wrote: > I'm on the Ultima Meetup and Ufie Meetup for Portland. It's ok, but the way > it makes money is via restraunts/pubs/coffee places putting their locations > in for a small fee. They also get a certain number of votes weighed in so > that they're guarunteed at least one meetup. So you end up getting a lot of > crappy choices sometimes. You can suggest other places, but you have to be a > paid member also. So it's a good concept, they just need to make money off > of it and that makes for some problems. That doesn't sound too unfair. I mean, the venues get extra business from the deal, sounds fair that they should foot the bill. I just can't believe how difficult it is to get people together. It appears as though this posting to chat@ resulted in 1 person signing up for the BSD meetups. *sigh* ... oh well, I guest it's back to wandering into bars and listening to people tell me how wonderful their Windows DVD burner is when it doesn't crash. >>---------- >>From: Bill Moran >>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:58 PM >>To: chat@freebsd.org >>Subject: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks >> >>Hey, >> >>I've been trying for a while to get organized to get together with >>fellow freenix geeks in the Pittsburgh, area. I tried hooking up >>with a local LUG, but that didn't go so well. >> >>Recently I tripped across this meetup.com site. It doesn't seem >>like anything shady or anything (although I'm not sure how they're >>making money off it) >> >>So, basically, I'm asking anyone in the Pittsburgh area interested >>in getting together to talk tech to sign up. Let's see if this >>meetup.com thing can organize meetings like it says it can. >> >>(Hell, if you're not from Pittsburgh, I guess it's OK to sign up for >>your city as well) >> >>No, I don't work for meetup. No, I don't get kickbacks or anything >>for signing anyone up. No, this isn't a pyramid scheme (at least, >>not as far as I can tell) I just got bummed last month when not >>enough people signed up to make a meeting worthwhile and thought I'd >>see if I could drum up some interest. >> >>http://bsd.meetup.com -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com