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The Bay Area User Group on Meetup is about to be shut down.

It was founded on 8th January 2009.

It has 1741 members.

@dotemacs do you mean the group itself is disbanding, or just that it's closing its presence on meetup.com?

@technomancy I suspect that whoever was running it, no longer had interest in keeping it going.

At which point, meetup messages/emails all the members to ask them if they want to keep it going.

So far I didn’t see anybody stepping up

@dotemacs we've gone through multiple group managers over the years but running a regular group is hard work, esp. if you want in-person meetings; we've had several discussions about trying to restart it in the #clojure-bay-area Slack channel that have ultimately gone nowhere... @technomancy

@dotemacs Ideally, the group needs a corporate sponsor to provide a meeting space (and maybe drinks/snacks); I ran it for two years ages ago and logistics are just a nightmare really @technomancy

@dotemacs I guess because of meetup.com‘s price hike? Similar for @cljvie, but we’re looking for alternatives. Maybe we find a new home for it on a Mobilizon instance.