[group-organizers] meetup.com rsvp raffle script

[Travis Swicegood]

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

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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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