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This is the problem: people would _expect_ events to be posted there.
Suppose a hypothetical Udi finds haifux on facebook. He signs up. Now,
he expects all his info to come down that channel. "What?!?", thinks
Udi, "I now have to go to another _website_ for info on this facebook
group?!? wtf?!?" and now he thinks bad of haifux.
Multiply this by all the linkedins and mysplats and it will be a disaster.
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<p dir="ltr">I see that things get complicated. My logic goes as
follows:<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">1. Events
should be published in one place only, or a reliable automatic
mechanism will assure that all places are in sync (yeah, right...).
Since lectures are scheduled and moved every now and then, anything but
a single place will create situations in which some people arrive and
some won't. And specifically Facebook has this quality of being
unavailable every now and then, so keeping it in sync may be a problem.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">2. The events
should be published in Haifux' site. Simply because that mechanism is
accepted, by definition, by all Haifux members. Facebook's popularity
among Haifuxers (myself included) is evidently questionable.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">So yes, maybe
our hypothetical Udi will be annoyed by us not publishing our events on
his favorite site (and maybe he will respect us for that), but I'm sure
that he will be much more annoyed to go to a non-meeting, just to find
out that the Facebook information wasn't updated. Which is a pretty
likely scenario, given that lecture reminder emails are written, how
should I put it, in a random way.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"> Eli<br>
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