Offline event list

[PawelHaracz]

@pawelklimczyk Would you describe what should do?

[pawelklimczyk]

This one is pretty hard to do. The idea is automate this http://netdevelopers.pl/events Right now somebody has to add conference or any other meeting (except from meetup.com) manually to json file. This is cumbersome to manage. It would be nice to hook up some sources so offline events are populated automatically.

[PawelHaracz]

Ok, I can do it

[lukasz-pyrzyk]

@pawelklimczyk maybe list of upcoming events from meetup / facebook groups? However it will look similar to the netdevelopers.pl/groups

[pawelklimczyk]

@lukasz-pyrzyk the problem with fetching events from facebook is that:

1. There is a lot of crap - unfortunatelly
2. Same event is advertised in many places

Although, I'm open to any ideas

[lukasz-pyrzyk]

As we can see there is no sense in presenting conferences in ./events, because nobody cares about updating it. Let's try to automate this subpage. I would prefer to fetch events from from .net groups with Meetup profile (like Wroc.NET) and FB groups like Bialystok .NET. Nothing else, no groups like conferences poland. Let's keep it clean.

[pawelklimczyk]

You are into something. The main idea was that conferences will be presented in one list and local-events in another. As we can see this does not play well. There is number of conditions: 1) groups lifetime expires 2) new groups come to life 3) we don't know about all conferences (where to gather that info).

What do you propose (since you have something in mind)?

[lukasz-pyrzyk]

Let's change approach for local meetups. Currently they are about 'groups with events' instead of just events. Its problematic...

• They are groups like Dotnetos or Luxoft meetup where city is changing.
• From time to time group dies / new appears. It's impossible to delete old group / change data without PR

Let's fetch this data in runtime basing on the list of meetup Ids / facebook Ids and sort by date with some info about organizers. Less state, less problems.

Not sure what to do with conferences... Usually organizers don't care about this website and nobody else cares about PR with new data. For example, in case of 4Developers we can fetch data from their FB events page. But... it's still flaky