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. Thanks, Lala >> >> >> -- >> *Gene Liverman* >> Systems Administrator >> Information Technology Services >> University of West Georgia >> gliverma at westga.edu <mailto:gliverma at westga.edu> >> 678.839.5492 >> >> ITS: Making Technology Work for You! >> >> >> >> This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged >> information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the >> sender immediately by return mail, delete this message, and destroy any >> copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other >> than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal or >> actionable by law. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org >> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> in the past, I've announced a Dojo at : >> * twitter >> >> * facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an >> invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people ) >> >> * Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to >> centos-announce, but made no real difference ) >> >> * IRC >> >> * lwn.net/calendar <http://lwn.net/calendar> ( some. not all ) >> >> What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth >> doing as well these days ? >> >> ( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into >> the Dojo Organising wiki pages ) >> >> Regards >> >> -- >> Karanbir Singh >> +44-207-0999389 <tel:%2B44-207-0999389> | http://www.karan.org/ | >> twitter.com/kbsingh <http://twitter.com/kbsingh> >> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-promo mailing list >> CentOS-promo at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-promo at centos.org> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-promo mailing list >> CentOS-promo at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-promo mailing list > CentOS-promo at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo