FYI: The voting system on the flawk.to/roadmap allows for a single person to vote as many times as they like. On 2019-11-01 11:03 a.m., Rick Leir wrote: > Hi Richard > The organizer of another Ottawa group is planning an alternative to > Meetup. It is more than an alternative, it looks like a big > improvement. See https://flawk.to/roadmap > Cheers > Rick > > On October 31, 2019 11:15:43 AM EDT, Richard Guy Briggs > <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > On 2019-10-31 09:59, Rick Leir wrote: > > Scott Would you mind reminding me when the upcoming meeting > is? From memory, it is the first Thursday of each month, so it > would be... But the neurons are over committed. If we were a > meetup group, then there would be a nice ical file attached to > the announcement email. And we would have new people > attending. I am not pushing for that, but the ical attachment > would be nice. > > > Meetup has changed enough with parent company WeWork under financial > pressure that Meetup has become more and more difficult to justify > financially. I don't know where they are headed, but I know of a number > of groups that have stopped using the platform and others that are > actively campaigning to find community-friendly alternatives. > > Rick > > > slainte mhath, RGB > > -- > Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> > <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! > Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% > Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > > -- > Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com