-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm co-organizer of the KW Non-Profit SysAdmin group, which has a presence on meetup.com. We boast 249 members, but are lucky to get even 10 out to a meeting. If it weren't for the sponsorship of NetSquared, we wouldn't be using meetup.com at all. Too expensive, no practical return for money spent. And even NetSquared is looking for alternatives to meetup.com. - --Bob. https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/ On 2017-07-24 12:05 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2017-07-24 09:32 AM, David Ing isss--- via talk wrote:
One cure (actually, an affordance) is to register the GTALUG on meetup.com <http://meetup.com>, for visibility.
Running a meetup.com group isn't cheap (I co-run one, and one the size of this mailing list would eat through our total funds very quickly) but it is a great way of getting new folks.
There's an ops group meeting tonight. I'll bring it up then.
Meetup brings all its own membership and communications infrastructure (and levels of spam for admins that scale new heights) so I think we might have to think hard on how to use that.
Right now, searching Google on "Linux Toronto Meetup" has GTALUG as the fifth hit on my list.
I'm guessing that Google is algorithmically weighting your search to favour
"linux" "toronto" site:meetup.com
since I'm sure meetup.com forks over a bunch of cash in order to be found favourable in the eyes of the Goog.
cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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