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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I was about to post about this mystery too:<div>- I guess all the Meetup organizers became inactive sometime December,</div><div> and David A quietly stepped down without publicizing it, then the Meetup had no owner,</div><div>and could be taken over by anyone.</div><div>- Suresh V took over the Meetup group, charged a $20 fee per person per year, (which means he just made $600 off other people's community work, without permission),<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> changed the Meetup name to "Bay Area Python 3.x Indulgence Group"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (</span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/BayPIGgies/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.meetup.com/BayPIGgies/</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">), unilaterally changed the venue, dates etc. (Actually he initially tried to charge $5/person/month dues, which would have been $60/person/year, to all </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">300 members.)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- I'm not sure he's even allowed to do that and probably he should give the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BayPIGgies Meetup organizer position back (he's welcome to start his own totally separate for-profit Python Meetup, but not use the BayPIGgies name, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and he should probably also refund all the $600 he obtained by using the BayPIGgies name without any permission)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- does anyone have a contact for David A, the old organizer? I checked and I don't.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> I don't even know the spelling of his last name otherwise I'd have reached him in December.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> We need to redistribute his organizer duties in a coordinated way. (Thanks David for the hard work.)</span></div><div><div>- meanwhile who are the owners of this BayPIGgies mailing-list and www.baypiggies.net site admin</div><div> and domain name owner?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div><div><br><div>> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:10:43 -0800<br>> From: martin@falatic.com<br>> To: baypiggies@python.org<br>> Subject: [Baypiggies] Big changes to the BayPIGgies Meetups<br>> <br>> So I recently got an email saying I needed to pay $20 to stay in the<br>> BayPIGgies Meetup group. Figuring it's been good so far and not knowing<br>> things had significantly changed I paid it. Now I see that every upcoming<br>> Meetup has a fee attached to it as well (and they're no longer at LinkedIn<br>> and they're on odd days of the week - e.g., Saturday).<br>> <br>> And since when did the acronym change? Is the Meetup group not related to<br>> http://www.baypiggies.net/ and this mailing list now?<br>> <br>> What's going on?<br>> <br>> - Marty<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Baypiggies mailing list<br>> Baypiggies@python.org<br>> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe:<br>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies<br></div></div> </div></body>
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