[Chicago] Meetup group

[Rob Kapteyn]

Same issue with the Paramount Tall Club <http://www.tallclubchicago.org>.
We did meetup.com in parallel for a while.
It requires a lot of additional workflow hassles and learning for our
content editor, who does just fine with the MoinMoin wiki I setup.
(I do need to update it -- but it has run fairly well for ~9 years !)
Meetup.com is slick -- the calendar and reminders are nice -- but it is
expensive for a non-profit social club and if you ever quit -- someone
obnoxious could take it over.
Because of this -- we also used meetup.com as a parallel "feeder".
I just did a search and I see several packages to sync meetup to a django
site.
I'll have to check them out !



On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <
emperorcezar at gmail.com> wrote:

> My cycling group uses our own site and use Meetup to funnel people to be
> club members. We're a membership organization though.
>
> I think with API work it can be smooth. By itself it's not particularly
> smooth workflow.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:53 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > We haven't used the meetup group in a while, and I'm wondering if it is
>> > something we want to maintain or not. I do see a lot of people who find
>> the
>> > group who don't know about chipy, so I see value in it.
>> >
>> > On the other hand it does seem dead since there are no obvious meetings
>> in
>> > it.
>>
>> Is the value outweighed by the monetary cost of the site and the
>> effort to keep it open and up to date?
>>
>> Some groups like Boston and Atlanta use meetup exclusively. I don't
>> believe I've seen groups using both their own site/mailing list &&
>> meetup.
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