[openstack-community] Status of Groups portal (was Re: Fwd: [Foundations] Meetup.com spam warning)

sean roberts seanroberts66 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 20:01:47 UTC 2014


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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On September 26, 2014 9:12:02 AM PDT, Sean Roberts  .
> >
> >I thought the groups tool being built by Martin was going to integrate
> >with meetup and other sources of user group sharing rather than
> >replace. Replacing would shrink our community and would impact the
> >momentum of attracting new people.
>
> This is still the plan: not replace what is already working. If meetup.com
> works for you then fine, but groups can offer an alternative if desired or
> necessary.
>

I thought we were heading for two way support, rather either being the
source of truth. Meaning I would see meetup details on groups.openstack.org,
but I could also update a meetup event on groups.openstack.org and then the
meetup event would get updated via the meetup api.


>
> Currently for the groups that use meetup.com the Groups portal imports
> the list of events automatically using meetup api. If you look at the
> groups.OpenStack.org you'll see a list of events imported. We can do
> more, we will have to discuss the next phase of the project as soon as we
> have the concept of "users" and roles in the portal.
>
> >Can we discuss the group's portal implementation plan with the
> >ambassadors to start and then the rest of the community? I am realizing
> >that this is going to impact us in a big way and I don't know much about
> it
>
> We sure can. Let's pick a date and time next week, I'm fairly open.
>
I think we should have the discussion on the ambassadors ML rather than
just me. I only know so much.


>
> Stef
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>



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~ sean
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