On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Stefano Maffulli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri 11 May 2012 11:54:21 AM PDT, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> I certainly don't see anything about that in the terms of >> service. http://www.meetup.com/terms/
There's definitely a way to "migrate" the ownership of a group (and the 144$ yearly fee responsibility) among users. You can nominate a new "Organizer". (just did that for various reasons). Not sure there's a real need to delete a group. You could just post a - go here for future events post on the group's page.... > > Right, there is nothing there. I have heard stories from people that > ran groups on meetup.com and had problems closing/migrating away from > there. Part of the issue of migrating is maintaining contact with the previous members. Folks / Meetup own their contact info. You can export the details the members decided to share with your group, but contact info is not necessarily one of those. > > Basically, to close a group you need to ask meetup.com to do it, after > you've advertised your intentions and got consensus among other admins. > The process is described on > http://www.meetup.com/help/How-do-I-delete-my-Meetup-Group/ > > They may have made things easier than in the past but I don't think > this is relevant for our discussion. Allow me to rephrase what I said > before: > >> Of course it's your choice to use it or not but I'm not >> comfortable advocating for it as a solution > > What I meant to say is that I'm in favor of each team picking its own > preferred tool to keep the local community engaged, informed and > ultimately happy. I'll keep myself neutral for the tools of choice of > the local communities. I can provide suggestions, only if asked but the > choice should always be done by the local coordinators. > > Hasaim: > >>> Shouldn't the requirements be considered prior to selecting a portal? > > Yes, indeed. Lets go back to the beginning, below is the list of > requirements I identified. Is this all we need? > > Basic needs > > • A directory of OpenStack user groups (OSUG) that is more flexible > and appealing than a wiki page. > • A system to get in touch with members (all members or just the > coordinators/leaders?) of the international communities. > > Features > > • Register users using SSO > ∘ as a user I would like to be able to associate my profile from > Launchpad, Linkedin or Google to the site > • Support content in multiple languages (switch list and automatic > recognition via browser agent configuration) > • Support roles: managers of the groups can add resources, members can > sign up as members, anonymous can read all content > • Show activity from all groups in my own language on the portal home > page > • Directory of OSUGroups, with geographic representation > ∘ be able to view the groups on a chart > ∘ display also the full list of groups > • Manage content (pages) of generic interest > ∘ to host content like how to start a group, general, policies, > trademark stuff, generic icons, etc > • Per each group, > ∘ allow users to add events, each group will expose its ical feed > ∘ show to list additional resources for the group: mailing lists, > forums, wiki pages, home page, url of blogs, > ∘ import RSS feed from blogs to aggregate content on groups page > ∘ display photostreams from flickr and such on the home page > Meetup.com does provide some additional capabilities, useful for actually planning events themselves: * RSVP to events. Very useful for head count / Tshirts and other miscellaneous per-head items. * Per event announcement - rather than spam all the UG members, you can provide per-event announcements just to the positive RSVP's * Export of various items into convenient formats (i.e. CSV). It's useful e.g. for dealing with venues which require a priory list attendees' full name * Reaching out to ""adjacent"" technological interest UG's (meetup) - there's quite a lot of activity in high tech arena that is Openstack Adjacent - Cloud UG's, Google Tech, Web 2.0 etc. Meetup ""promotes"" groups to folks who share interests. Think SEO for the physical world ;) That said, some other items beyond meetup that could also help: * sharing & curating capabilities - video, photos and slidedecks. You've got your YouTube and G+ Hangouts and slideshare... but curating past events and organizing info into consumable (and locatable) archive Lastly, about SSO and user identities. I see UG as having a dual role - preach to the choir and getting new converts - or.... have a forum for existing Openstack community members (developers, deployers and users) to interact in person, but also promote openstack to the uninitiated. An SSO system that will add a potential barrier for folks who are (not that I understand why in this day and age) reluctant to sign up providing any personal details (e.g. email address). Potentially, that's one benefit for meetup - it allows folks to decide what details to ""expose"" about themselves to the UG organizers and fellow members, and utilize a singup that they already have for other purposes. Members of the BOSUG are split between being members of just 1 group, or quite a few. 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