[PSF-Community] Looking for alternatives to meetup.com

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Hello PSF Community,

as many of you know, meeptup.com is pretty much the standard when
it comes to organizing user group meetings - at least in the US,
the UK and probably also some other countries.

Now, meetup.com is also a rather expensive service to use and
with the PSF funding the fees, I'd like to investigate, whether
encouraging use of alternative services wouldn't result in a better
use of the PSFs grant funds.

These are some services I've found:

 * http://www.eventbrite.com/ (free for free events)
 * https://www.farornear.com/ (free)
 * http://attending.io/ (free)
 * https://www.xing.com/de/events (free for free events,
   much like eventbrite, used often in Germany)

For BarCamps:

 * https://www.barcamptools.eu/ (again, mostly in Germany)

Some questions:

 * Do you know other such services ?
 * What's your experience with these ?
 * If you're running a group on meetup.com, would you be willing
   to move to a different platform ?

I think it would be good to collect this information on a python.org
wiki page to better guide new user groups to meetup.com alternatives.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
http://www.python.org/psf/
http://www.malemburg.com/