[Cialug] Meetup

[Andrew Denner]

That is one of the reasons I have been hesitant to add us to meetup...
(Unless someone would be kind enough to bankroll us)

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:03 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, David Champion wrote:
>
> > What are you looking for? If you want to post events for random people
> > tofind, you need to use something like Meetup that has some marketshare.
> >
> None of the groups I am involved with have ever gotten an attendee from
> Meetup, and their recent cost increase ($360/yr) to show sponsor logos
> means we can no longer solicit sponsors to assit in defarying costs (it
> would be impossible to get enough FROM sponsors to pay Meetup AND the
> group, and also pretty much totally irresponsible)i.
>
> In general, Meetup has gotten WAY too expensive for any benefit, and has
> also proven useless in attracting participants for the groups I sponsor.
>
> Over 90% of the "Members" in the six different Meetups I attend never make
> a meeting anyway, and the remaining 10% know about the group without
> Meetup.
>
> > I know for our Makerspace public events Meetup is one of the more
> > popularways that people find us, as well as from the various social
> > mediaplatforms.
> >
> Of course, but those resources are totally focused on a single market; in
> this case, Meetup is pretty much useless, so I am dropping them, as I only
> have two as Organizer.
>
> So, the plan is to replace Meetup with a simple website and mailing list,
> but it would be nice to offer other functionality.
>
>         Thanks!
>
>         Lee
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