From andrew.schoen at gmail.com  Fri Apr  6 21:24:03 2012
From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 14:24:03 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script
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Hey all,

We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put
together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from
meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win.  It just prints their
name to terminal
and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser.  Kinda a cool
little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs.

I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but
it should be easy to change to your own account.

Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful.

https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler
https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups

Andrew Schoen
@andrewschoen
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Sat Apr  7 17:20:14 2012
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:20:14 -0400
Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script
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This is a clever idea.  I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my 
RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa.  Maybe 
this would help make them match? :)

I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to 
hand them out as people show up.  That forces at least some people to 
talk to each other!  Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the 
ticket numbers.

--Ned.

On 4/6/2012 3:24 PM, Andrew Schoen wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put
> together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from
> meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win.  It just prints their
> name to terminal
> and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser.  Kinda a cool
> little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs.
>
> I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but
> it should be easy to change to your own account.
>
> Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful.
>
> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler
> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups
>
> Andrew Schoen
> @andrewschoen
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From travis at domain51.com  Sat Apr  7 17:48:28 2012
From: travis at domain51.com (Travis Swicegood)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:48:28 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script
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The local Rails group put together a simple web app for their give aways. Might be a source of inspiration if anyone is interested. 

https://github.com/austinonrails/rafflr

-T
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On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:

> This is a clever idea.  I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa.  Maybe this would help make them match? :)
> 
> I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to hand them out as people show up.  That forces at least some people to talk to each other!  Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the ticket numbers.
> 
> --Ned.
> 
> On 4/6/2012 3:24 PM, Andrew Schoen wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> We started raffling off books at our presentation meetings so I put
>> together a simple little script that pulls a list of RSVPs from
>> meetup.comand randomly picks a person to win.  It just prints their
>> name to terminal
>> and then opens up their meetup.com avatar in a browser.  Kinda a cool
>> little way to raffle prizes and drive RSVPs.
>> 
>> I think the meetup.com api wrapper we're using is specific to PythonKC, but
>> it should be easy to change to your own account.
>> 
>> Just thought I'd share, hope it's useful.
>> 
>> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-raffler
>> https://github.com/pythonkc/pythonkc-meetups
>> 
>> Andrew Schoen
>> @andrewschoen
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From andrew.schoen at gmail.com  Sat Apr  7 18:27:30 2012
From: andrew.schoen at gmail.com (Andrew Schoen)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:27:30 -0500
Subject: [group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script
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On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>wrote:

> This is a clever idea.  I find my attendance doesn't nicely match my
> RSVPs, both in people who attend but don't RSVP, and vice-versa.  Maybe
> this would help make them match? :)
>

Yeah, that's the idea.  We wanted a way to help match our attendance with
RSVPs.  Didn't think it was too much to ask to RSVP for the chance at a
book. Plus, it's a real geeky way to raffle books.  :)



> I bought a roll of raffle tickets at Staples, and I choose someone to hand
> them out as people show up.  That forces at least some people to talk to
> each other!  Then I use random.randint() to pick one of the ticket numbers.
>
> --Ned.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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