<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Gareth —<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have managed to join up with my meetup account (which isn’t tied to FB, it’s email based). Maybe give that a try?<br class=""><div class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Kind regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">travis</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">******</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Travis Mooney</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Technologist and Writer</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">+44 (0)7908631440</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Skype: ttmooney</div> </div> <br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Nov 2015, at 20:12, Gareth France <<a href="mailto:gareth.france@cliftonts.co.uk" class="">gareth.france@cliftonts.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">It will not let me sign up! When signing in with Facebook it keeps asking me to specify a location even though I have.<br class=""><br class="">On 16/11/15 20:06, Alan Pope wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello!<br class=""><br class="">Background:- <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/MeetupProposal" class="">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/MeetupProposal</a><br class=""><br class="">We (Canonical) have signed up (and pay for) for a MeetUp Organiser<br class="">account. This makes it easy for people in the Ubuntu community around<br class="">the world to create and manage events on <a href="http://meetup.com" class="">MeetUp.com</a>. I created one for<br class="">the UK Team here:-<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-UK-Local-Community-Team" class="">http://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-UK-Local-Community-Team</a><br class=""><br class="">Feel free to join. I'm not going to start spamming the group with<br class="">stuff, so don't worry about getting a flood of notifications. I'm<br class="">new-ish to MeetUp too, so feel free to point out any mistakes /<br class="">omissions on the above page :)<br class=""><br class="">You can see the 'world map' at the url below. Currently we're just<br class="">starting out, so there's only a couple of groups :)<br class=""><br class="">http://www.meetup.com/pro/ubuntu/<br class=""><br class="">The idea being if anyone _anywhere_ in the UK wanted to create an<br class="">Ubuntu related event they can create / manage / publicise it for free<br class="">on MeetUp to other like minded individuals. If people join the 'team'<br class="">they will get notified of upcoming events and can sign up (if<br class="">required) to get updates about those events. I'm sure many of you have<br class="">heard of MeetUp and/or have used it too. The wiki page above goes into<br class="">way more detail.<br class=""><br class="">In short:-<br class=""><br class="">* Nobody is forcing anyone to use MeetUp, it's just a service we<br class="">thought people might like to use<br class="">* We can create events anywhere around the UK (or beyond) despite the<br class="">group being 'based' in London (it's not based there, it's just that<br class="">the site wants a 'place' by default)<br class="">* Other services are available<br class=""><br class="">As a starter we're looking to set-up some themed events maybe starting<br class="">as soon as next month and ongoing through next year which people may<br class="">be interested in attending. If people have ideas on subjects they'd<br class="">like talked about, or additional events elsewhere, let me know.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Al.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class=""><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" class="">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br class="">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk<br class="">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>