We use a fork of OpenSource bridge software for organizing ruby conference in India. It runs the
https://github.com/kaiwren/conference , maybe we can just use some open source app hosted on a vps for organizing openstack meetups, that can also reside as a common network / resource for people using openstack. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Doug Hellmann <[email protected] > wrote: > > > 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 >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Best Regards Saurabh www.safewlabs.com | www.smbtechedge.com [email protected] | +919833096120
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