This announcement comes as bad news to me:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/0359253&tid=187&tid=215&tid=98

I've only had the chance to attend one beer meeting so far that was 
organized through Meetup.com, but I thoroughly enjoyed that one.  BIG 
THANKS DEBORAH!.  But I think this new fee is outrageously high.  $19 a 
year, maybe, maybe... but a month!  So screw 'em.

Seems it shouldn't be too hard to reorganize beer meetings through this 
list.  Comments?

Kraig