From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-05-17T23:09:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Alternatives to Meetup.com?

pat eyler wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Tom Ward <tom.ward@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>I've received E-mail from Meetup.com that the Phoenix Ruby Group is
>>>closed until someone steps up and pays the organizer fees.  Well, that
>>>won't be me, and and don't expect anyone else in the group to do so
>>>either.
>>>
>>>What do other people use to organize Ruby user groups?
>>
>>Many meetup groups have moved over to Andy Baio's upcoming.org
> 
> 
> The good folk in pdx.rb are talking about writing their own rb-runner 
> app in Rails, and the folks down in urug have already written an 
> RSVP tool to handle their meetings.  Up here in Seattle.rb, we do
> things the old fashioned way -- with email.  (Each group Cc:ed
> to elicit any responses (or cooperation) possible.)

Last I heard, John Long and Ryan Platte were planning to write a 
meetup.com replacement for their entry in the Rails Day competition (I 
think they are looking for a third person to join their team).

Curt