[plug] meetup.com, was Re: What's on in October: Wednesday, Sunday meetings

[Steve Boak]

Hi Nick.

And Hi Harry, sorry to miss your talk.

Yep, I've been in Nannup since 2002.

Thanks for the clarification, I was assuming (wrongly) that meetup was 
something like ms teams.

I was at the Linuxconf in Perth, 2003 I think, but I can't find any 
evidence of it at the moment. I've also been on the plug list since 
about then.

I've been playing with Linux for a 'long while', I still have my 
Yggdrasil Linux Bible published in 1994. Not that I read that hefty 1150 
page document much anymore, but it's amazing how many Linux tools from 
back then are still relevant :-)

These days my interests are more in Linux on Raspberry Pi, embedded 
local home automation and meddling with control of my solar and battery 
inverter system.

Steve


On 8/10/2025 2:22 pm, Nick Bannon wrote:
> Hey, Steve! Nannup, you say..? We've always been about the whole of WA
> here, our Secretary is in Geraldton, I'm from Esperance, we've had other
> members attending online or coming to visit from Collie and further.
> ...but also "PLUG" is too good an acronym to give up lightly! :)
>
> I think you've got two questions there:
> 1. What does meetup.com do? (for PLUG)
> 2. Where's PLUG at with online/hybrid/video streaming/AV recording meetings?
>
> Maybe someone else can help give an update about the second one: we do
> have a lot of online meetings, but it also needs technical work and
> a healthy in-person presence to keep it going. In collaboration with the
> UCC of UWA we've been sharing a bigbluebutton.org instance at:
> https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/plug
> ...tonight in the UWA venue is going to be a bit of a challenge, but
> stop by and see if we're running, partially, between 18:00 and 20:00.
>
> For the first one: yes, meetup.com is a bunch of marketing pap that we use
> to get the word out about our events and have a RSVP page. We do get a steady
> trickle of new members finding us there, so it's probably still worthwhile.
> There's no need for our members to pay for "Meetup+", PLUG is paying its
> share of an organiser "Community essentials" subscription.
>
> Our main calendar is on our own website and our main discussion forum
> is right here on the mailing list. There's Internet chat, too. Joining
> meetup or the mailing list is not actually financially joining PLUG,
> that's over here:
> https://www.plug.org.au/membership/
>
> We're sharing the costs of meetup.com with the Perth Artifactory, but
> I'd also like to reach out again to https://linuxvictoria.org/contact/
> and see if we can share some infrastructure. LUV is also using meetup.com and
> bigbluebutton.org and I saw some of their team earlier this year.
>
> Steve - maybe you could help get us back in touch with LUV? They're
> having regular online and regional? events, there's upcoming Tuesday
> evening Town Hall and "LAIT" chats:
> - https://www.meetup.com/linux-users-of-victoria/events/311084565
> - https://www.meetup.com/linux-users-of-victoria/events/311283712
> - https://linuxvictoria.org/posts/lait-night-chat-linux-and-ai
> - https://electronworkshop.com.au/goto/venue/
>
> Nick, PLUG Vice-Chair 2025.
> 0419 957 011
>
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 09:32:55AM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've signed up to Meetup in the hope that it's a streaming service that I
>> can use to join the talk, but it's not very clear on the Meetup website if
>> this is the case. Lots of marketing pap about 'social media platform
>> dedicated to fostering human connections' and 'engage with your local
>> community in a way that leads to meaningful, real-life connections'.
>>
>> But what does it do?
>>
>> Can someone enlighten me please?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve
>> -- 
>> Steve Boak, VK6HSB
>> 0411 255 789
>> P.O. Box 240, Nannup, WA 6275

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Steve Boak, VK6HSB
0411 255 789
P.O. Box 240, Nannup, WA 6275