<p dir="ltr">I respect people may not want to be a part of meetup due to privacy concerns. I have the intention of continuing to communicate the meetings using the <a href="http://penguinsunbound.com">penguinsunbound.com</a> website. But as the coordinator of the group the benefits were enough to cover the organizer dues myself rather than trying to maintain self managed software. Anyone concerned can continue to reference the website for meeting times. I also felt we as a group could grow from the other IT professionals in the twin cities already on meetup that may not be aware of the group if they never had heard of us before. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 13, 2015 2:45 PM, "Chuck Cole" <<a href="mailto:cncole@earthlink.net">cncole@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="4">Meetup is a commercial firm that requires groups to pay
group dues and submit their member lists for their advertising purposes.
Not private or self-governed. Many may not want their names submitted to
this commercial operation. I'd like to hear of Penguins things, but not
this way.</font></span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John
Frisk<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 13, 2015 6:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> TCLUG
Mailing List; Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team;
<a href="mailto:penguinsunbound-announce@lists.ties2.net" target="_blank">penguinsunbound-announce@lists.ties2.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [tclug-list]
Penguins Unbound is on Meetup!<br></font><br></div>
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<div>Hello everyone,<br></div>We have created a meetup site for Penguins
Unbound. This should enable us to better communicate group activities,
meeting times, place availability, etc. I hope all interested will join
meetup and RSVP for the March 21st 10AM meeting so I can get accurate
attendance numbers. This will also help on topic interest and meeting
place requirements. (Future dates will be added once I get time).<br></div>
<div>The site: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/PenguinsUnbound/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/PenguinsUnbound/</a><br></div>
<div><br></div>I plan on talking a bit about piwigo (the open source gallery
software) <a href="http://piwigo.org/" target="_blank">http://piwigo.org/</a><br><br>David may present some
material he's been working on about customer success in SaaS.<br><br></div>I
am waiting for confirmation on the place but will announce it once that is
completed. More to come!<br></div></blockquote></div>
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