Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
- From: "pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx" <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx" <iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:52:05 +1000
Ah, fair enough. I already knew about the Sydney meetup group so didn't have
to search for it.
And yes, Yury has moved to Mountain View as Kellyn mentioned, which is why I
said he used to run the group. Dunno what's gonna happen with it now, as it
does need a fairly driven personality (who? Yury? LOL!) to lead it. :)
Pete
Sent while mobile, please excuse my typos!
> On 7 May 2014, at 8:50 am, Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> re: "you can join a meetup group in a single city"
>
> I meant that you can join meetup groups in multiple cities, but typed the
> wrong thing.
>
> Iggy
>
>
> From: iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 15:36:07 -0700
>
> Yes, of course; you can join a meetup group in a single city but, if you
> lived in Canberra, you would not search for meetup groups in Sydney because
> you only search by the supposed location of the meetup group not by the
> location of the event. Yury could definitely create an event in Canberra but
> people would not find it because Yury's meetup group is supposedly located in
> Sydney.
>
> In other words, meetup groups grow through the process of people finding the
> meetup group. Meetup.com also does a great job of recommending meetup groups
> to its members which means that the meetup organizer does not have to work
> hard to advertise the meetup group. But, if I lived in Canberra, I would
> search for meetup groups in Canberra and Meetup.com would only recommend
> meetup groups in Canberra to me.
>
> Yury in Sydney could create an event in Canberra but he would have to tell
> the people in Canberra about it. But If Yury created a different meetup group
> just for Canberra, then Meetup.com would start recommending it to people who
> lived in Canberra.
>
> P.S. Hasn't Yury moved to California?
>
>
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:58:48 -0700
> From: pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
>
> Not really, Yury used to run the Sydney meetup group and I was able to
> subscribe from Canberra (300 km away). Or am I misunderstanding what you
> were saying here?
>
>
>
> Pete
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> From: Iggy Fernandez [mailto:iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:27 AM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
>
>
>
> 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
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