That would save the organizer fee of $19 per month ($15 per month if you pre-pay for 3 months and $12 per month if you pre-pay for 6 months). The problem is that one can only search by the location of the meetup group (Chicago in this case) not by the location of the event (e.g. Southern California). In other words, a meetup group is effectively limited to a single city. Iggy Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 15:16:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything From: jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: tim@xxxxxxxxx CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Now all you have to do is create an account on meetup.com, schedule something, advertise the heck out of it here on ORACLE-L, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc and then figure out who's going to pick up the check for lunch. :-) If anyone else wants to use meetup.com to organize oracle-related lunches in their city, I can help with getting the website part running. (I already have an organizer account for this.) -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider