[PSF-Community] Looking for alternatives to meetup.com
Nicholas H.Tollervey
ntoll at ntoll.org
Wed Nov 18 17:57:31 EST 2015
oops... that should be ti.to
N.
On 18/11/15 22:56, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
> to.to worked really well for PyCon UK this year.
>
> N.
>
> On 18/11/15 21:34, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> 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,
>>
>
>
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