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I'm not a huge fan of Meetup.com's UX and too much email is definitely a
problem too.  This is a ripe area for disruption but unfortunately, nobody
has disrupted it yet.

Is there a service that's better than Meetup.com?  I would gladly try it
out.

-Adam
Nairobi OpenStack User Group

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
wrote:

> This may be interesting for OpenStack user groups, too.
>
> /stef
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Foundations] Meetup.com spam warning
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:22:52 -0700
> From: Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com>
> Organization: PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
> To: foundations List <foundations at lists.freedesktop.org>
>
> Folks,
>
> I know a lot of OSS groups use Meetup.com for user group meetings.  I
> wanted to warn you that the default group settings permit spamming, and
> need to be changed by your UGs.
>
> The new default on Meetup is that any 3 group members can approve an
> event, with or without an organizer.  This allows any 3 spam accounts to
> create a spam event.
>
> This setting is in Group Tools > Group Settings > Basics.
>
> (and yes, this is "yet another reason not to use Meetup")
>
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