<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;">Howdy Perl Mongers!<div><br></div><div>Meetup is now charging about $50 per MONTH (and increasing regularly), as compared to about $60 per YEAR when we first signed up before Covid. Yes, the price has literally increased to 10x in just a few years.</div><div><br></div><div>So far I have been personally covering the cost, but now we have more people joining the Meetup group, some of whom are legitimate Perl programmers and some who are spammers or fake accounts.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus, we will now charge $12 per year in Meetup dues, of which $10.60 goes to the Austin Perl Mongers (after Meetup's cut) to help offset the rising cost of Meetup itself.</div><div><br></div><div>If any Austin Perl Mongers are genuinely interested in our activities but can not afford to pay the token amount of $1 per month, then please let me know and we can see about covering the cost for you.</div><div><br></div><div>In case you weren't aware, we have online meetings every 2 weeks, and our next in-person meeting is on September 18th:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/austin-perl-mongers/events/">https://www.meetup.com/austin-perl-mongers/events/</a></div><div><br></div><div>See you there!</div><div><br></div><div>Perling,</div><div>~ Will the Chill<br><br>William Norman Braswell, Jr.<br>
CEO & President; Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc.<br>
william.braswell@autoparallel.com<br>
512.563.7984<br>
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This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.<br><br>On 8/6/2024 at 10:17 PM, "Timothy McDaniel" <tmcd@panix.com> wrote:<blockquote class="hush-quote" style="border-left:solid 1px #ccc;margin-left:10px;padding-left:10px;">I just got email, shown below. Saved email shows even more alarmist <br>email from Meetup in previous years.<br><br>Does Meetup collect dues for Austin Perl Mongers? Are dues being used <br>for anything?<br><br>-- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com<br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Upcoming payment for your membership dues<br>Date: 2024-08-06 21:32<br> From: "Meetup" <info@meetup.com><br>To: tmcd@panix.com<br><br> Hi, Tim McDaniel.<br><br> Your payment for membership dues to Austin Perl Mongers group is due on<br>8/10/2024. If you have not already done so, please make sure you have a<br>valid credit card on file.<br><br> Update payment method [1]<br><br> This Meetup group uses member dues to:<br><br> * Cover group costs<br> * Help compensate organizers<br> * Encourage more engaged members<br> * Have a reserve fund<br> * Provide supplies or equipment<br> * Improve events<br> * Together we will put Perl back on top!<br><br> Continued support from members like you is what makes groups like<br>Austin Perl Mongers a success. Thank you for your help in building a<br>stronger community.<br><br> Meetup LLC, POB 4668 #37895 New York NY USA 10163.<br><br><br><br>Links:<br>------<br>[1] <a href="https://www.meetup.com/dues/austin-perl-mongers/checkout">https://www.meetup.com/dues/austin-perl-mongers/checkout</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Austin mailing list<br>Austin@pm.org<br><a href="https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin">https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin</a></blockquote></div></span>