On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Haisam Ido <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I certainly don't see anything about that in the terms of service. http://www.meetup.com/terms/ > > >> 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 >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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