This alternative seems to be free as long as the group is non-profit: http://www.doorkeeperhq.com/ I suppose that any such service that facilitates group communications and meetings needs to maintain a list of email addresses just as the mailman program does for tclug. Ed On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> wrote: > Meetup is a commercial firm that requires groups to pay group dues and > submit their member lists for their advertising purposes. Not private or > self-governed. Many may not want their names submitted to this commercial > operation. I'd like to hear of Penguins things, but not this way. > > Chuck > > ________________________________ > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of John Frisk > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:56 AM > To: TCLUG Mailing List; Ubuntu Minnesota Local Community Team; > penguinsunbound-announce at lists.ties2.net > Subject: [tclug-list] Penguins Unbound is on Meetup! > > Hello everyone, > We have created a meetup site for Penguins Unbound. This should enable us > to better communicate group activities, meeting times, place availability, > etc. I hope all interested will join meetup and RSVP for the March 21st > 10AM meeting so I can get accurate attendance numbers. This will also help > on topic interest and meeting place requirements. (Future dates will be > added once I get time). > The site: http://www.meetup.com/PenguinsUnbound/ > > I plan on talking a bit about piwigo (the open source gallery software) > http://piwigo.org/ > > David may present some material he's been working on about customer success > in SaaS. > > I am waiting for confirmation on the place but will announce it once that is > completed. More to come! > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >