From: kellan <kellan@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T19:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Meetup.com changes

Bah, and just as I was trying to get a Boston.rb meetup started.

An open source alternative would be awesome.

Interestingly enough 43Things just added Upcoming.org support to their
webservices, which makes me think that a *really* cool Meetup
competitor would one that used webservices to integrate 43Things and
Upcoming to make its magic work.

Maybe the core member list is stored on a 43T "thing", or even as a 43T
team, and then individual instances with specific dates and RSVP
statuses can be spun off to Upcoming.

There is a 43Things Ruby library[2], but I think only PHP/Perl
libraries for Upcoming (to date)

-kellan


1.
http://robotcoop.com/weblog/70/building-web-services-that-play-nicely-with-other-web-services
2.  http://rubyforge.org/projects/r43/