From: pat eyler Date: 2005-05-17T23:25:21+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Alternatives to Meetup.com? On 5/17/05, James Britt wrote: > Tom Ward wrote: > >>I've received E-mail from Meetup.com that the Phoenix Ruby Group is > >>closed until someone steps up and pays the organizer fees. Well, that > >>won't be me, and and don't expect anyone else in the group to do so > >>either. > >> > >>What do other people use to organize Ruby user groups? > > > > > > Many meetup groups have moved over to Andy Baio's upcoming.org > > I just poked around upcoming.org, but don't see a way to define a > recurring event, nor can I add an event that has yet to decide on a > venue. It seems focused on one-off, well-defined activities; that > fails to define phx.rb on both counts. They do have an API (which I've not yet looked at) though. What about using that to do scheduling for your local Ruby Brigade (and for displaying the resulting meetings)? > > James > -- 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)