@hwillson Thank you for bringing these up. Beside Meteor Camp, this is the first time I’ve posted an event notice to the Forums. I’ll address each point individually.
- When we’ve held meetups in the past, we’ve sometimes mentioned the event was sponsored by MDG. This goes back to when Nick told us we were an official DevShop. While I no longer arrange for food and drink through MDG, it still pays for the meetup subscription, and we’ve never been told that MDG isn’t a sponsor anymore. As for reaching out, after Thea left, there wasn’t any communication from MDG on who we should reach out to. I didn’t even realize she left until a few days ago.
I’ve been organizing or co-organizing this meetup for more than four years, often reaching out in and out of our network to find speakers or solicit topics. The communication with MDG has never been smooth, so we soldier on. It’s clear to me now that there’s no one looking at the meetups to see what the organizers are doing, or reaching out to them to offer guidance. NYC is the third largest in terms of size and still growing, so we haven’t abandoned it.
Priceline is sponsoring the location and refreshments. Since I was posting here, on an MDG property, I also thought it polite to give MDG credit. I hope that clears that up.
- This is on me. I’m one volunteer trying to put together events and it’s hard to keep up with breaking changes and arrange for topical content. When I first surfaced the schema stitching back in late April, it was still valid; Paul just recorded his talk in March. We had to postpone our May meetup until this month, and didn’t change the topic. From the link it appears deprecation notice was put up only several days ago.
I’m happy to point out this change tonight. I haven’t seen any talk on Apollo Federation (don’t have any speaker offering to talk about it either), but I see that Ben Awad has posted an explainer on YouTube. Let me know if you’d prefer me to swap out Paul’s talk with Ben’s video and add links to the blog post in the meetup notice. I usually send out a day-of notice, and can still get it in.
I appreciate you getting back. Let me know how you want me to proceed regarding #2.
