Man, that Durham date sure disconfirms the idea that your meetup isn't soon enough :)
And hmm, just having one far-future meetup post is a clever way to just keep your meetup in the list permanently, like how meetup.com groups have permanent pages, with the actual meetup schedule being a part of that group page.
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