I'm sure no personal offense was meant, let's try to maintain nice spirit... Both arguments make sense. My 2 cents: 1) We must make sure not to be locked & confined to any "closed" environment. 2) Any distribution channel is important. I think this meeting will have much higher attendance rate, mainly due to Facebook.
Thanks, Udi On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Refael Ackermann <[email protected]> wrote: > There are some interesting points you are raising here Rani, but. > 1) Events can't be made "visible to world". > 2) True, but Facebook does provide several important features, unavailable > in GoogleGroups, such as Calendar & Guest tracking, and also easy promotion > by users. And also it is free as opposed to Meetup.com > 3) What makes GoogleGroups more open then Facebook, as you said, you need > to sign in to comment on the GG page as well? > 4) I think you're directing your angst at the wrong people, ask Facebook to > allow "visible to world" for events, and I'm sure many of the "looked out" > issues you've experienced in the past would go away. > > To conclude I take personal offense in your comments. To me you seem like > the snob. Here I come and give of my time and initiative, for the benifit of > the group (as I calimed FB provides several importent features), and you > come grumping about people "moving your cheese" (not even moving but > sharing) from one free service to another. > > Check yourself man. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 13:23, Rani Hod <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Feel free to post it wherever you see fit, but >> >> (a) Facebook albums/events/stuff can be set as "visible to all"; I regard >> people who don't check this checkbox as either computer unsavvy, which none >> of us is, or plainly inconsiderate, which none of us is. >> >> (b) Splitting a discussion over multiple places is sometimes problematic, >> and having part of the discussion in an inaccessible location is even worse. >> >> (c) More than once I've seen a migration from an open platform to facebook >> that began exactly like this: a mere replication of the information. Then a >> facebook group is formed, and all discussion afterwards is locked away. I >> care enough for PyWeb-IL to try to save it from such a misfortune. >> >> Please avoid the snobbish canned response "sign up to facebook, it's free" >> as this is irrelevant. If I wanted to comment on the event, it's reasonable >> (but often not necessary) to require an account. >> But reading the invitation? Bah. >> >> Best, >> R. >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:34, Ahik Man <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there any problem with replication of the meeting invitation in other >>> places? Is this one >>> <http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6450>(for >>> example) is also not OK? >>> >>> Ahik >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Shai Berger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:13:10 Rani Hod wrote: >>>> > > We now have an event on Facebook. Please share. >>>> > >>>> > Oh, good. >>>> > Another "you don't have a facebook account, therefore you don't exist" >>>> > email. >>>> > >>>> +1 (on Rani, not Facebook). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyWeb-IL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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