I would be delighted if you would do that - thank you! If you are organizing a meet up, please consult with this list. There may be people who would be willing to speak and have something interesting to say.
Julian > On Oct 16, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Jesus Camacho Rodriguez <jcama...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi Julian, > > I have just seen your message. Although we have other ways to communicate, > I believe it may be valuable to keep the group even if a meetup has not > happened for a while (we may organize some meetups in the future, those > interested in Calcite may be subscribed to group to attend talks around the > project even if they do not follow the project closely through mailing > list, etc.). I would be happy to pay the fees to keep it. I have just > checked and I think I could simply go ahead and pay, but let me know if I > need to do anything else. > > Thanks, > Jesús > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:21 AM Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > >> If you’re a member of the Apache Calcite meetup group[1], you probably >> just received an email saying that the group is shutting down. I set it up >> a few years ago, but I never find time to organize meetups, so I decided to >> stop paying the annual fee to meetup.com <http://meetup.com/>. >> >> I’m not particularly sad that it’s closing down, given that it has been >> inactive, and we as a community seem to find other ways to talk to each >> other. But if someone in the community would like to organize some meetups >> and is prepared to pay the fees, I’m happy to hand over the reins. >> >> Julian >> >> [1] https://www.meetup.com/Apache-Calcite/ < >> https://www.meetup.com/Apache-Calcite/>