[GLLUG] Possible alternate meeting site

[STeve Andre']

A GLLUG Facebook page is a great idea.  If GLUUG is to advertise itself then
all avenues should be explored.  A 'services' entry on Craigslist will 
be looked
at by people skimming for things, which is different from Facebook.  Both
should be investigated.

In the case of Craigslist, they use user feedback and basically depend on it
for their actions.  Alerting them that someone is wrongly flagging GLUUG
would be a good thing.  They have the power to not remove things if they
see a pattern of abuse of flagging.

--STeve Andre'

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On 08/01/11 21:32, Ben Chavez wrote:
> Some ideas have been going around and the IRC channel just keep coming 
> back. Considering that our good friends at the Craigslist keep 
> removing our add I wonder if would be any good to open up a GLLUG 
> facebook friends page.
> Also there is another site called meetup that offer space for group of 
> people to schedule meetings and stuff.
> There is already a meetup group for open source software, and another 
> one for web developers. I feel that there are more resources than 
> craigslist and we can do good use of them.
> There are like thousand recipients in this mailing list so the word 
> about GLLUG is out there.
>
> I think that a complaint should be lodged. There was nothing wrong
>> with the gluug ad.
>>
>> I have to wonder if someone who is generically anti-Linux is doing
>> this.
>>
>> --STeve Andre'
>>
>> On 08/01/11 12:49, Chick Tower wrote:
>>> So, what's the final verdict?  Thursday is approaching.
>>>
>>> By the way, the GLLUG ad in computer services has been flagged and
>>> removed, too.  No explanation as to why, or even if a human being
>>> working on behalf of Craigslist agreed that the ad violated some rule.
>>> I might pursue this to see if I can find out why and how to modify it
>>> to be acceptable to some<insert foulest epithet you can imagine here>
>>> who is flagging the ads, but I'm not sure anyone who might know would
>>> respond or even notice my request for help.  Their attitude seems to
>>> be "Hey, what do you want for free?"
>>>
>>>
>>>                                 Chick
>>>
>>> On 07/30/2011 12:12 AM, STeve Andre' wrote:
>>>> On 07/29/11 20:19, Frank Dolinar wrote:
>>>>> The particular place we were discussing is the "Coffee and Friends
>>>>> Cafe" at 5100 Marsh Road, Okemos -- the site of the former Cappuccino
>>>>> Cafe. The cafe has a very simple website at:
>>>>> www.coffeeandfriendscafe.com
>>>> Coffee and Friends is nice--but have you talked to the owners?