Mauritius Tech Meetups

All the tech meetups from the many local community groups, in one place!

Privacy Policy and EULA

This should give you an idea of what I will do with your data. I am not a lawyer, and I am too poor to get a legal team.

Preface

Ahead of you reading what I keep on you and what I track, I should clarify the purpose of meetup.mu. This project is a community project - it is developed by numerous contributors. I (Alex) am the "main" developer. Meetup.mu is intended as a free (both in freedom and cost) alternative to other platforms, built for tech community groups in Mauritius. Personally, I do not care about your data.

Your Data

  • Meetup.mu is a community project and entirely open source.
  • If you use this website without creating an account here, I store no data on you beyond the session details (agent, IP, last activity).
  • When creating an account, you provide me with your name, email address, and a password. As expected, the password is hashed.
  • The only plaintext data is therefore your name and email address.

Where Your Data is Stored

  • Currently, all components of Meetup.mu are found on my homelab Kubernetes cluster. This includes the scraper, Laravel application, and database.
  • The database is obviously inaccessible to the outside world, and can only be reached from within the Kubernetes cluster (not even from my LAN)
  • Your data resides in Longhorn, a block storage solution for Kubernetes. It offers encryption at rest. However, I do not use this feature as I am unfamiliar with it.
  • All data is backed up to Wasabi S3 on a daily basis. Please read their docs on security here.

Who Can See Your Data

  • I, Alex, have access to the entire database. This means I can see your name and email address, as well as the session details.
  • Your name and email address are visible to the admins of the community groups when you RSVP to their meetups. I cannot control how community admins use your data.
  • As the data is more specifically in Longhorn, on Kubernetes, your data is probably also safe from Mauritius government agents.

Terms of Use

  • I do not particularly care about who uses this website.
  • Having a community group present on this platform does not mean that I (or any other contributor) endorses them.
  • I am the only person who can (and will) add or remove community groups on this platform.
  • I may choose to remove community groups at my own discretion (and with my reasons).