[PSF-Community] Looking for alternatives to meetup.com

[Peter Farrell]

Some costs could be saved as three meetups can be on one account. PyMNtos
has a dummy master account called Python Minnesota and shares the meetup
with Django Twin Cities and student Python group at the U of MN as well.
On Nov 18, 2015 3:40 PM, "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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