Comments on: Using Facebook Groups over Meetup.com

By: Meetup.com Expirations and Future - Technology

Meetup.com Expirations and Future - Technology — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:01:23 +0000

[...] we’re suggesting that those that wish to continue to have free MySQL User Group management, they should migrate to Facebook. My colleague Colin Charles has produced a [...]

By: byte

byte — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:41:20 +0000

Looks swell! Go North Texas :-)

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By: byte

byte — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:39:51 +0000

This is clearly, the only catch. What about folk that aren’t on Facebook…

And this is where maybe having an email list helps. Or another webpage altogether.

There are always going to be people that don’t join Facebook, and besides saying “get with the program”, you’re out of luck.

MySQL Meetups will close within two weeks :-( This is just an alternative (probably the best one out there)

By: Dave Stokes

Dave Stokes — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:53:09 +0000

We moved the North Texas MySQL Users Group to out own server at http://northtexasmysql.org and started a Facebook group.

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:43:36 +0000

What about those of us who prefer not to join Facebook? (e.g. too many social profiles already.)

I am already on MySQL meetups.