Would this be more concrete if we were to start organizing the next meetup?
Are we due for a meetup in a timezone that’s good for China / Australia? Julian > On Dec 9, 2025, at 02:58, Ruben Q L <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Stamatis for taking care of this all this time. > I don't know Luma, but I think that for our requirements probably a free > tool might be enough, so maybe we should give it a try. > > Ruben > > >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you for keeping the flame burning all this time, Stamatis! The >> hybrid meetup in February 2025 [1] was excellent, and proved that there are >> still great speakers and plenty of people interested in attending. >> >> A few meetups that I attend use Luma. It is good and free. We should >> consider dropping Meetup.com and moving to that. >> >> Julian >> >> [1] https://www.meetup.com/apache-calcite/ >> [2] https://luma.com/pricing >> >>> On Dec 5, 2025, at 9:06 AM, Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been managing the Apache Calcite group on meetup.com [1] for >>> the past few years but I would like to step down and transfer the >>> ownership of the group. >>> >>> Would someone from the PMC be willing to take over the management of >>> the group and the payment of the subscription? >>> >>> I feel that we could still organize Calcite meetups and events without >>> strictly relying on the Meetup platform so we could also consider >>> shutting it down. >>> >>> Best, >>> Stamatis >>> >>> [1] https://www.meetup.com/apache-calcite/ >> >>
