-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMitYwACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEFWygCfdc5irAWXoG0KIkAhmbmwI38k 9qcAmwWTgIeWwtGLcTjz4jcBTUIWAVQB =Tv4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----