Attention All Shindig Attendees and Meetup.com users!
POSTED BY: DoubleShiny
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 21:25
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This morning I found out that in future Meetup.com users will have to pay a monthly charge to use the service. The organisers of the service will have to pay upfront, and ask their members to chip in.
I know there are over 1000 Browncoats on the service, and I'm betting I'm not the only one to begrudge paying over $100 a year for it. (Over $200 for new groups).
Shindigs are a big part of being a Browncoat, so I've set up an alternative to Meetup.com for those who don't want to shell out for the service.
The site is at www.alantudyk.net, click on 'Shindig Central' in the nav bar.
At the moment there's not a lot on there, I'm counting on other people to post their shindig info. If you anyone has any problems with the board, or has any suggestions, let me know
DS
www.alatudyk.net *now updated*
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Would love to know how other meetups are handling this...
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Originally posted by dietcoke:
Would love to know how other meetups are handling this...
On Wikipedia you add the wiki page of your city http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup to your watchlist.
Wikis are almost perfect for this, and I suggest we use the Cortex wiki http://firefly.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page (the other Firefly wiki unfortunately has links that pop-up new windows). Most boards with recent posts on top like FFF and br.se aren't well suited (unless there's a seperate shindig section) because it wastes pages upon pages of threads of which only one would be of interest to fans (the city where they live).
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I am Jack's username
Serenity release date and folk on the rim: http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
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The Houston, TX shindig group
is moving here, http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/bayoucitybrowncoats/
just wanted to get the word out
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Instead of the wiki I linked to above, I think http://upcoming.org/tag/firefly may be better because it's global and has many different kinds of meets - a better replacement for meetup.com.
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I am Jack's username
Serenity release date and folk on the rim: http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal Meetup.com!
I have moved the Richmond Browncoats in response to Meetup's demanding fees to the following address:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/
All you Richmond type Browncoats stop on by and make yourselves at home. Email invites went out this morning.
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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal Meetup.com!
I have moved the Richmond Browncoats in response to Meetup's demanding fees to the following address:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/
All you Richmond type Browncoats stop on by and make yourselves at home. Email invites went out this morning.
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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/
Hey BrownCoat1 I am a fellow Browncoat from Virginia Beach. I saw that you just started that group in yahoo. I actually have some webspace on my site I can set aside for a forum for the RichmondBrowncoats if you would like. I can install and manage it as well. There will be no ads or anything. Email me if you are interested. Bliss13@gmail.com
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Here's another venue, it's very much like meetup but it's free! http://www.meetin.org/
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Hello fellow NYC browncoats,I set this up at upcoming.org,just to get the word out--
http://upcoming.org/event/17095/
but here is the official NYC "meetup" group--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc
also at meetup.com there is a link to report inappropriate content,so I wrote them and told them I thought it was inappropriate to start charging people---I hope the site looses all it's business!!!!Meetup.com=the alliance
"Hamsters is nice."
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Originally posted by Drelen:
Hey BrownCoat1 I am a fellow Browncoat from Virginia Beach. I saw that you just started that group in yahoo. I actually have some webspace on my site I can set aside for a forum for the RichmondBrowncoats if you would like. I can install and manage it as well. There will be no ads or anything. Email me if you are interested. Bliss13@gmail.com
Hey Drelen, welcome to the site! Glad to have you with us.
Fired you an email. Look forward to hearing from you.
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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/
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