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On 03/12/2014 09:56 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
On 03/12/2014 05:56 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 03/12/2014 05:18 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
I think you should post them on http://www.meetup.com as, at least around here, that seems to be where all the user groups are and where a lot of people go looking for things to do.
We had the same point come up during discussions at a recent Fedora User meet at Bangalore, India. We decided to continue using the Fedora project pages and mailing lists to announce and track meets, and also use other local mailing lists, IRC channels, and direct contacts.
It appears that meetup.com is fast becoming the brand for organising meetings, but it comes with the risk of getting your brand locked-in to the meetup.com brand. Organising meetings through meetup.com is inevitable for those groups which do not have their own infrastructure, but not so much for those who do. So it is a risk call that you need to take. I would go for the staying free route.
-rejy (rmc)
Doesn't that mean, we shouldn't be using twitter, FB, G+ etc. IMO same rules applies to all web portals, social networking websites.
That being said I am not against metup.com (specially when we are using other social networking platforms). Also I don't see anything wrong with using meetup.com as of now.
I think of the proprietary tools similar to how I think of GitHub compares to git.centos.org. We need to have a presence where the users are, but that doesn't mean we're making them the primary or only communication channels.
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