Posted by jaymiejones86 on July 31, 2010 at 10:14pm
I am looking to start up a website more tailored towards Drupal Meet Ups. I currently have most of the base functionality ready to go and about 40% of the theme created but am just curious to see if anyone would find this useful?
I know G.D.O has an events functionality but this site looks to be more tailored just for events and will add in other features that may be useful.
Please let me know your thoughts.
BTW: I tried creating this with my existing D.O account (triversedesigns) but it kept bringing up the spam filter warning and would not let me post to anything. Weird.
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Interesting
Hi — can I ask what state you're in? It's great to hear of people putting in time to build the community through local meet-ups.
In QLD we decided to launch for some of the reasons you mentioned. Are you thinking of creating an install profile, or just one site which would cater for multiple meet-ups? If the latter, I think improving g.d.o may be a stronger way to build the community overall, but an install profile could be a great head-start for local, individual meet-up sites which could be further tailored to the specific needs of each area.
Jeff
Install Profile or Global Community
I am from NSW, but just south of the QLD border, but I do work in QLD.
I am currently pondering whether to make it into an install profile for other local meet ups or to have as its own community.
I would like to see G.D.O improve more so, as this will lower segregation from other aspects of G.D.O, but not sure how those features would be implemented.
I want the focus of the site to be purely on Meet Ups, as apposed to jobs, discussions, etc. So making a site that can be used by everyone would be better in that sense. But then again, if made into an install profile, it could be used a lot better as it could be then further tailored to each individual location that has meet ups, eg like LA Drupal for example.
meetup.com?
As far as I see it every other meetup I've been involved in has been through meetup.com which has a really good system setup, plus it attracts a broader audience that may not use Drupal.org frequently.
Is this not a good option? I notice there are quite a few drupal meetups on there currently, just none in my area. (Brisbane)
I think this could attract a lot more new users to Drupal also.
Anyone have any other thoughts?
http://lukebrooker.com
meetup.com charges to run a
meetup.com charges to run a meeting on that site, its not a lot but someone probably just needs to offer to sponsor that cost. And its hard to justify when we have a perfectly working system here provided for free on groups.drupal.org
Meetup.com was tested
Thanks for mentioning meetup.com, Luke. I was actually going to bring up as well, since it is a site dedicated to physical meetups and its recent closure of Drupal meetups. There were several attempts to get events posted there and I was an initial contributor, but there was never seemed to be much traction there and it just directed people back to g.d.o. The main group, "Drupal Meetups Worldwide", was also recently closed since nobody was interested in taking it over (over 100 ppl in the group). I have noticed a few people using meetup.com for local groups, but usually they seem to point back to g.d.o and I haven't really seen much added value from that.
I would also be curious to know what else the site you are building would add. You can currently just see events at http://groups.drupal.org/events and even filter them by your groups. I've also added a taxonomy for regions in this group, so you can easily filter posts for just your city.
It should also be pointed out that the new redesign project is going to be taking some new directions with groups, jobs, etc and would most likely deprecate what you may be working on once it launches. See the prototypes here https://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/event... and https://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/jobs....
My general feeling is that it would be better to spend time improving g.d.o, or to work on the drupal redesign project rather than doing something independent of this work. The extra splintering of information is also something that I don't think would add value (at least not in Australia).
--Ryan
Ryan Cross
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. Really appreciate it. I may hold off the project until the whole re-design has been completed and will see where I want to go from there.
international
whilst travelling etc i always look at groups.drupal.org and meet-ups any other site would pollute and also not look as professional, my thoughts
however if you have a blog i would suggest creating a page there and letting people know aka your own list and you could prob get feeds etc for automatic update but it would only be an addiotional place to look and not take over importance of groups.drupal and meet-up :D