my comments are in-line below. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Stefano Maffulli <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri 11 May 2012 08:14:43 AM PDT, Everett Toews wrote: > > We use meetup.com <http://meetup.com> for the Canadian OpenStack Users > > Group. It does everything we need it to do and it's very reasonably > > priced. I don't see us switching away from it. > > I believe that Meetup may not be a good thing for us in the long run. > Last time I checked, you can't switch away from it because technically > Meetup owns the group, not you. If you as administrator of the group > decide that Meetup doesn't satisfy you anymore, you cannot close it. > AFAIK you can only step down as administrator and Meetup.com will find > a new administrator for you. > > Are you sure that Meetup.com owns the group? If true, that's terrible. > Of course it's your choice to use it or not but I'm not comfortable > advocating for it as a solution, quite the contrary indeed. > > > From the wiki page <http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups> it > > looks like a lot of the other OSUGs are using it too. Whatever tool is > > decided upon, hopefully it can integrate with meetup.com > > After this discussion, I feel very inclined to provide a simple > directory-type of portal whose mail functionalities will be to list the > resources available for user groups, in different languages. The choice > of tools to use to actually *run* the group will be left to the group > itself and the portal will mainly provide the links to the group's > resources. > > Shouldn't the requirements be considered prior to selecting a portal? > Is anybody interested in testing the Ubuntu Loco Portal code? > https://launchpad.net/loco-team-portal it's a django app and may > provide us all we need but it may be too tightly integrated with > Launchpad. I'd like to give it a spin some time next week and start > playing with our use cases to see how much it fits. > > let me know, > stef >
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