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On 09/25/2014 02:14 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> The value of meetup.com comes from the network effect: there is a large
> amount of people using meetup.com and when they join it they state their
> interest using 'keywords' and the geographic areas where they reside.
> When a new group is created within X miles, using those keywords, the
> person registered on meetup.com gets a notification. So people registed
> on meetup.com*and*  interested in cloud get a notification of new
> OpenStack groups close to them.
>
> This network effect is a lot harder to break than simply replicate or
> improve the UX.
To me, this is the killer feature - being discoverable to an audience 
that doesn't know about some other site, far outweighs any UX 
shortcomings. I worry that moving to our own meetups site will make 
these gatherings invisible to a huge potential audience.

It's a shame Meetup.com isn't Open Source.

-- 
Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
OpenStack Community Liaison
http://openstack.redhat.com/

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