Posted by moshe weitzman on May 14, 2009 at 12:43am
MySQL has long recommended that their local user groups organize using meetup.com. They even went so far as to underwrite all subscription costs for their group organizers (noone knows the details of this arrangement). Now that underwriting has dried up and local groups are stranded on a for-pay service. See http://www.pythian.com/news/2338/meetupcom-confirms-automatic-mysql-spon....
One more reason to hug groups.drupal.org and the editorial and infrastructure team that keeps it going.