[PSF-Community] Looking for alternatives to meetup.com
Ludovic Gasc
gmludo at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 16:59:46 EST 2015
Hi Marc,
I'm agree with your approach to try to optimise PSF ressources.
However, at least in Belgium, I must recognise that we have now more people
since we've migrated on meetup.com.
At least to me, I prefer to increase the potential audience of a meetup
than reduce cost.
Nevertheless, keep meetup.com and reduce costs shouldn't be incompatible:
With the number of Python groups on their platform, we should have a big
argument to negotiate a better group price.
It isn't a good signal for them if Python groups leave their platform: the
network effect should play in our favour to negotiate.
What do you think?
Ludovic Gasc (GMLudo)
http://www.gmludo.eu/
On 18 Nov 2015 22:39, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at python.org> wrote:
> Hello PSF Community,
>
> as many of you know, meeptup.com is pretty much the standard when
> it comes to organizing user group meetings - at least in the US,
> the UK and probably also some other countries.
>
> Now, meetup.com is also a rather expensive service to use and
> with the PSF funding the fees, I'd like to investigate, whether
> encouraging use of alternative services wouldn't result in a better
> use of the PSFs grant funds.
>
> These are some services I've found:
>
> * http://www.eventbrite.com/ (free for free events)
> * https://www.farornear.com/ (free)
> * http://attending.io/ (free)
> * https://www.xing.com/de/events (free for free events,
> much like eventbrite, used often in Germany)
>
> For BarCamps:
>
> * https://www.barcamptools.eu/ (again, mostly in Germany)
>
> Some questions:
>
> * Do you know other such services ?
> * What's your experience with these ?
> * If you're running a group on meetup.com, would you be willing
> to move to a different platform ?
>
> I think it would be good to collect this information on a python.org
> wiki page to better guide new user groups to meetup.com alternatives.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> Director
> Python Software Foundation
> http://www.python.org/psf/
> http://www.malemburg.com/
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