# Use this forum to organize local Julia-meetups instead of Meetup.com?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** meetup\
**Created:** [December 10, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851 "2016-12-10T20:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851/1 "2016-12-10T20:41:38Z")

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What are the opinions on using this forum to organize local Julia-meetups instead of [Meetup.com](http://Meetup.com) (or whatever else is used)? The main reason I ask is that [meetup.com](http://meetup.com) costs me, as a organizer, 60/year. Without offering any benefits, as far as I can tell, over posting & organizing meetups here for 0 (at least for my small group in Zurich).

Would this be acceptable? Desirable? Would we make a new (sub-)category for each meetup? If I understand discourse correctly, this would not lead to any noise to other, not interested users.

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851/2 "2016-12-11T12:49:13Z")

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I think that would be absolutely an appropriate usage of discourse and this category. I just added a meetup tag and we can create make city/country specific meetup tags that users then can subscribe to. Once we get enough meetup post I will probably create a subcategory here.

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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851/3 "2016-12-12T11:26:26Z")

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Cool, thanks. I’ll discuss this at our next meeting.

Is there a way to set a tag/category be by default “muted” for all users, unless they unmute it? Say, a “meetup-zurich” tag would be of no interest to most of the 500+ users. So it would be great to have to actively “subscribe” to that (as opposed to 490 users having to actively “unsubscribe”). A quick search turned this up: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watched-tracked-by-default/34680](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watched-tracked-by-default/34680), so the answer is probably “no”.

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851/4 "2016-12-12T12:19:55Z")

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Discourse has a couple different levels of notification. Muted is a very strong and the Normal level should be sufficient.  
Community members still will see topics about meetups as new topics, but they won’t get notifications about them. I think about _normal_ as a unsubscribed and _muted_ as ignore.

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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-this-forum-to-organize-local-julia-meetups-instead-of-meetup-com/851/5 "2016-12-12T12:40:07Z")

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Sounds good. Thanks for the clarification.