From: Esther Schindler

A friend of mine turned me on to meetup.com, which is a fairly nice site with a decent premise: you pick the topics that interest you, and when there are 5-or-more people in the area who share the same interest, they help you choose a coffee-shop type of place to get together. My friend Jeff said he met 5 other Delphi guys in Colorado Springs, and had a good time.

The site does a remarkably good job of protecting your privacy, particularly because it collects very little data about you. Just name, e-mail ID and location, all of which would be necessary to match up people with venues and interests.

They have a gadzillion topic areas, from Linux to quilting to folk music to Wicca. They didn't have an OS/2 group, so I wrote in and they've just started one: http://os2.meetup.com/

They do have a premium membership (which would let us set up a venue of our choice in, say, Phoenix) but the advantages aren't quite compelling enough to get me to fork over the $20. You might feel differently.

In any case, I think it's a great idea, particularly for people who use eCS, OS/2 or whatever, and live in areas without a "known" group of compatriots. (Feel free to post this around to OS/2 discussion groups. The more the merrier!)

Esther


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