From: pat eyler Date: 2005-04-14T23:09:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Meetup.com changes On 4/14/05, kellan wrote: > 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. We could use 43 Things 'teams' to represent the groups, with projects/comments to track meetings. > > There is a 43Things Ruby library[2], but I think only PHP/Perl > libraries for Upcoming (to date) I've been idle this week on r43 (too many other obligations), but I should have a 0.3.0 release out next week with a much improved interface and support for all of the People and Goals methods. If there's interest in using it, I'd be happy to bump up the Teams methods for inclusion in 0.3.0 too. > > -kellan > > 1. > http://robotcoop.com/weblog/70/building-web-services-that-play-nicely-with-other-web-services > 2. http://rubyforge.org/projects/r43/ > > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said - the Raven (George MacDonald, Lilith)