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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Haisam Ido <haisam.ido@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> my comments are in-line below.
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Fri 11 May 2012 08:14:43 AM PDT, Everett Toews wrote:
>> > We use meetup.com <http://meetup.com> for the Canadian OpenStack Users
>> > Group. It does everything we need it to do and it's very reasonably
>> > priced. I don't see us switching away from it.
>>
>> I believe that Meetup may not be a good thing for us in the long run.
>> Last time I checked, you can't switch away from it because technically
>> Meetup owns the group, not you. If you as administrator of the group
>> decide that Meetup doesn't satisfy you anymore, you cannot close it.
>> AFAIK you can only step down as administrator and Meetup.com will find
>> a new administrator for you.
>>
>>
> Are you sure that Meetup.com owns the group?  If true, that's terrible.
>

I certainly don't see anything about that in the terms of service.
http://www.meetup.com/terms/


>
>
>> Of course it's your choice to use it or not but I'm not comfortable
>> advocating for it as a solution, quite the contrary indeed.
>>
>> > From the wiki page <http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups> it
>> > looks like a lot of the other OSUGs are using it too. Whatever tool is
>> > decided upon, hopefully it can integrate with meetup.com
>>
>> After this discussion, I feel very inclined to provide a simple
>> directory-type of portal whose mail functionalities will be to list the
>> resources available for user groups, in different languages. The choice
>> of tools to use to actually *run* the group will be left to the group
>> itself and the portal will mainly provide the links to the group's
>> resources.
>>
>>
> Shouldn't the requirements be considered prior to selecting a portal?
>
>
>> Is anybody interested in testing the Ubuntu Loco Portal code?
>> https://launchpad.net/loco-team-portal it's a django app and may
>> provide us all we need but it may be too tightly integrated with
>> Launchpad. I'd like to give it a spin some time next week and start
>> playing with our use cases to see how much it fits.
>>
>> let me know,
>> stef
>>
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