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[Saurabh <saurabh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We use a fork of OpenSource bridge software for organizing ruby conference
in India. It runs the

https://github.com/kaiwren/conference , maybe we can just  use some open
source app hosted on a vps for organizing openstack meetups, that can also
reside as a common network / resource for people using openstack.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

>
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> 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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Saurabh
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