That is a great idea, Yunchen. We can add those in the footer of all our events. Next announced event is on the last Wednesday of the month as you know. Let me know if you are happy to edit the meetup page for that event.
By the way, the main place for notifications is [email protected]. I use luv-main at the moment due to an issue in our mailing list software that doesn't allow me to post to luv-announce. Once we resolve that, announcements should all come through luv-announce. There is however a benefit in announcing to luv-main and that is the fact that members can reply. Like this thread that Andrew McGlashan started! So. maybe we allow replies from members on luv-announce emails? @Russell is that possible? + Alexar On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 4:05 PM Yuchen Pei <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alexar Pendashteh via luv-main <[email protected]> writes: > > > Andrew McGlashan, thanks for asking some good questions! > > > > I agree that at the very least the direct link should also be in > > the > > announcement. The reason for using a link-shortener is basically > > accuracy > > and convenience. > > I personally load the meeting both on my phone and my laptop. On > > the phone, > > I can simply open the browser and type 'bit.ly / linuxmeeting' > > without > > needing to search for the link in the Email app, etc. It helps > > me choose a > > particular browser on the phone, instead of clicking a link > > which may open > > the link in a different browser. I also don't like the idea of > > copying a > > link and pasting it in the browser since all apps have access to > > the > > clipboard and trust me they all log everything you copy all the > > time. > > I didn't know that and did a ddg search and found this > https://www.xda-developers.com/stop-apps-reading-android-clipboard/ > > > In this particular case, it helps with removing ambiguity. We > > had a meeting > > a while ago with a different link under meet.glasswings.com.au > > and some > > people actually used the wrong link where nothing was happening. > > To address your concerns about tracking, I personally never > > thought there > > would be an issue with that. What I understand is that the > > bit.ly website > > will know you have visited this link. Is there any other > > downside besides > > that I am not aware of? > > Ideally, we will be using our own link-shortner under > > luv.asn.au. Something > > I had mentioned before in previous meetings. > > There was also a third reason for using bit.ly. Consistency. I > > assumed it > > would allow me to update the link for the future meetings and > > hence keep it > > consistent for our members but it doesn't seem to allow me to do > > that. > > For now, I agree that it is important to give people the option > > to use the > > actual link directly, so in the future I will include both the > > direct link > > and the short link. > > > > Regarding the meetup being a pripriotry platform, I agree that > > it is not > > the ideal solution however, our use of Meetup is solely for > > advertising our > > events and helping new members discover us. Some other groups > > are using > > meetup.com as their primary base and I agree with you that that > > is not a > > good idea. For us, our base is our website which uses open > > source software. > > And our events, so far has been also using open source software > > which some > > of them we also own the infrastructure they run on. So, in > > short, meetup.com > > has served us very well so helping new members finding us. It > > would > > definitely be great to advertise our events on platforms that > > have audience > > and are not propriotary. I don't personally know any. > > > > This all said, we can always try new ways of doing things for > > the upcoming > > events. So, suggestions and critisims are always welcome! > > How about put a short notice on the meetup.com page saying that > the luv-main list is the main place to get notified of events > hosted by LUV? > > Best, > Yuchen > > > > > + Alexar > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:17 PM Andrew Pam via luv-main > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On 1/6/21 10:38 pm, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > >> > Mobilizon features most of what Meetup has to offer, and it > >> > is completely free and owned typically by individuals and > >> > small > >> > communities, that won't exploit you. > >> > >> We set up a LUV Mobilizon server in 2018 and demonstrated it to > >> the > >> members at a LUV meeting, but unfortunately few members seemed > >> very > >> motivated to actually use it. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> andrew > >> -- > >> mailto:[email protected] Andrew Pam > >> https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious > >> Cybernetics > >> https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings > >> _______________________________________________ > >> luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > >> > > > -- > PGP Key: 47F9 D050 1E11 8879 9040 4941 2126 7E93 EF86 DFD0 > -- [image: image.jpg] *Alexar Pendashteh* technologist / social entrepreneur https://calendly.com/alexar/ https://github.com/pendashteh
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