Frozen In Time

      By: Tim Jones  |  April 13, 2005

      There's been a lot of talk about MeetUp.com's decision to charge $19/mo to MeetUp Organizers, but what struck me the most was this email I got in my inbox this afternoon.

      Your Organizer, Matt Jarjoura, sent the following message to
      the members of The Washington PHP Meetup Group:

      Well, since they are asking me to fork up $19 a month for this
      and PHP DC has barely gotten off the ground, I am going to step
      down as organizer.

      Maybe someone will step-up and revive this group, otherwise it
      will probably be frozen in time.

      -Matt

       

      Legacy Comments

      Cliff Allen (not verified) — Thu, 04/14/2005 - 11:14

      I've been nurturing two Meetup groups, but I just told them we'll be moving because of the new fees.

      I just posted an article on my personal Web site that compares two free event services, ours and another, that Meetup organizers can use to replace Meetup:
      http://www.allen.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl.h,content=122