let's meetup and stay in touch

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Menlo Park, CA 94025

Founder, I pay for this group (in more ways than one)

Location:

Alameda, CAUSA 94502

Organizer since:

February 2, 2011

Has attended:

11 Meetups

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Jan Lukas Karasch Got Wind and Water . . .

Looking forward to meet you and experience a nice day out on in the bay!

Feb 19, 2012 11:56 PM
Robert Graves

Hey John, good to see you guys are still working on this project. I sent your post to a talented web designer named Jay, but not sure if the does group sites. I ended up going to GroupSpaces after dropping Grouply, but it burned me out so I stopped organizing. I might start up again this spring though. Just one thought, if you can eventually make this site very privacy friendly without all the insanity that's in facebook, I think it will sell. Good articles in this sundays NY Times on this.

Feb 06, 2012 11:44 AM
Viviane Got Wind and Water . . .

Hi John,

I am looking forward to learning about sailing and to experience the adventure of sailing. I heard and read that sailing is exciting and relaxing. In the past, I?ve felt that my fear of not being able to swim discouraged me from any kind of water-related activities. Why try sailing now? I?ve been enriching my personal life as well as networking in the recent two years and hope to add sailing to my experience.

Dec 02, 2011 4:20 AM
Steve Hocking Got Wind and Water . . .

John, on December 18 we have tickwets to Handels Messiah!! Sorry, but we can't make your sailstyice meetup much as we'd like to
steve

Nov 14, 2011 12:00 PM
Katie Wilder

Thank you, John. I agree with your expectations statement and appreciate your efforts -- and that of all the organizers. Let's sail... KT

Jul 23, 2011 2:44 AM
Erika M.

Thanks for the welcome, Eben before the banshee my heart belongs to the floating wooden water magnet of an El Torro my dad and I built.

Jul 16, 2011 9:57 PM
Johnston Good To Go Sailing SF Bay

Hee hee- the voice of experience! Glad to hear from you John and welcome aboard. I tried to put this race night thing together without enough lead-time I think but will do another soon- or maybe just go sailing. Regards, Johnston

Jul 15, 2011 7:43 PM
Mae D

wow, your group is so absolutely friendly and welcoming. i love it! so you just sent me a ton of info and i am not sure where to start. honestly though, i need to get on the boat a little more first. i have no clue what goes on there, but i really am very curious.

Jun 26, 2011 12:38 AM
Capt Dan Bohn Got Wind and Water . . .

Welcome back John!! Just in time for the good weather! See you out on the water.

Jun 07, 2011 6:43 PM
Robert T. Reney Got Wind and Water . . .

John,
I just joined the group. Thanks for all the information!

Bob Reney

May 29, 2011 9:43 PM

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On Jan. 27th, 2011, Meetup.com launched a secret project code named 'Mayhem Mode'.

They substituted the user interface of their platform with a new one. They called this new user interface 'newmeetup'. Later it was revealed that this substitution was the outcome of a secret project. It was also acknowledged that this switch would cause some meetup groups to 'fail'.

They made a wholesale change the user interface of meetup groups around the world. Many organizers were very upset with this and many threatened to leave meetup altogether and move their groups to other platforms. About 2% of these organizers found a 'hidden in plain sight' discussion forum and let everyone know what they thought.

Many others realized that moving their groups would be difficult and would potentially negate all of the work they had done over the lifetime of their groups.

What could they do?

I decided to create this site as a place for the organizers and other web developers to gather and experiment with the new user interface. Many organizers did not want to experiment with their sites, and that is very understandable. The new interface had a ton of bugs in it, and most organizers are not interested in implementing some of the options in the new interface, let alone subject their groups to the bug ridden launch.

This is the place to join (for free) a *newmeetup* group. It is set to what Meetup HQ describes as "low moderation mode", so guess what? you are in charge and I *just* pay for it.

Have fun with it.

Visit the discussion forums to get an understanding of what happens in 'low moderation mode'.

If you are an organizer who intends to move your group to another platform, then this is the place to stay in touch with other meetup organizers and share with them your experience.

If you are a web developer, then this is the place to interact with meetup organizers who are looking for solutions to a problem that was imposed on them.

This group represents a new social network. A network of passionate organizers who created groups using the Meetup platform. A network of people who were successful with that platform and are looking to improve upon it.