It seems that there is no strong desire to continue using Meetup.com and that is perfectly fine with me. I cancelled the Meetup subscription today so it is very likely that the group will close in the next few weeks.
I am all in favor of starting the talks for the next meetup so I will start a new thread immediately. Best, Stamatis On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ > >> > >>
