From andrew.schoen at gmail.com Fri Apr 6 21:24:03 2012 From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 14:24:03 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script Message-ID: Hey all, We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win. It just prints their name to terminal and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser. Kinda a cool little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs. I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but it should be easy to change to your own account. Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful. https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups Andrew Schoen @andrewschoen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ned at nedbatchelder.com Sat Apr 7 17:20:14 2012 From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder) Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:20:14 -0400 Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4F805B2E.6000001@nedbatchelder.com> This is a clever idea. I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa. Maybe this would help make them match? :) I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to hand them out as people show up. That forces at least some people to talk to each other! Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the ticket numbers. --Ned. On 4/6/2012 3:24 PM, Andrew Schoen wrote: > Hey all, > > We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put > together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from > meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win. It just prints their > name to terminal > and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser. Kinda a cool > little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs. > > I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but > it should be easy to change to your own account. > > Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful. > > https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler > https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups > > Andrew Schoen > @andrewschoen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > From travis at domain51.com Sat Apr 7 17:48:28 2012 From: travis at domain51.com (Travis Swicegood) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:48:28 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script In-Reply-To: <4F805B2E.6000001@nedbatchelder.com> References: <4F805B2E.6000001@nedbatchelder.com> Message-ID: <0380B76E-D03B-4D8B-AE43-5EC5671EBC56@domain51.com> The local Rails group put together a simple web app for their give aways. Might be a source of inspiration if anyone is interested. https://github.com/austinonrails/rafflr -T -- Travis Swicegood | @tswicegood (most everywhere) | 512.693.7051 Sent from my iPad On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > This is a clever idea. I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa. Maybe this would help make them match? :) > > I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to hand them out as people show up. That forces at least some people to talk to each other! Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the ticket numbers. > > --Ned. > > On 4/6/2012 3:24 PM, Andrew Schoen wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put >> together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from >> meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win. It just prints their >> name to terminal >> and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser. Kinda a cool >> little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs. >> >> I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but >> it should be easy to change to your own account. >> >> Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful. >> >> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler >> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups >> >> Andrew Schoen >> @andrewschoen >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> _______________________________________________ >> Group-Organizers mailing list >> Group-Organizers at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers >> > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers From andrew.schoen at gmail.com Sat Apr 7 18:27:30 2012 From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:27:30 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script In-Reply-To: <4F805B2E.6000001@nedbatchelder.com> References: <4F805B2E.6000001@nedbatchelder.com> Message-ID: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > This is a clever idea. I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my > RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa. Maybe > this would help make them match? :) > Yeah, that's the idea. We wanted a way to help match our attendance with RSVPs. Didn't think it was too much to ask to RSVP for the chance at a book. Plus, it's a real geeky way to raffle books. :) > I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to hand > them out as people show up. That forces at least some people to talk to > each other! Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the ticket numbers. > > --Ned. >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: