[boston-pig] need a new organizer

Stephan Deibel sdeibel at wingware.com
Thu Mar 8 08:58:24 MST 2007


Joe Burgio wrote:
> Is it desirable to keep free of the clutches of
> meetup.com?  

I've gone back and forth on this.  Wingware paid the fee for a year or 
more (I forget the details except that it was a pain to pay for a large 
chunk of time at once) and then stopped since it seemed silly for a 
bunch of programmers to need a service like that.

However, as someone put it at PyCon in the Advocacy BoF, meetup is a 
"marketing tool" -- it is the way many people find the group -- and thus 
important to the outreach that a user's group does to bring in more 
users to Python.

My current take is it's worth maintaining a meetup account.

- Stephan


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