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TechforgoodCAST / tech-for-good-near-you

an app to find tech for good events near you
https://tech-for-good-near-you.herokuapp.com/
MIT License
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External Data Sources #10

Closed andrewMacmurray closed 7 years ago

andrewMacmurray commented 7 years ago

Need to decide which data sources we'd like to combine and how to do this

andrewMacmurray commented 7 years ago

@eghale we've had a look through the meetup groups and managed to pull some data in about the events in london, manchester and cambridge. Unfortunately there are only 4 upcoming events lol so we definitely need some different data sources to add to that 😆

eghale commented 7 years ago

OK here's a bigger list (all on Meetup so far but I'll keep adding to it): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ugF7_Vbad3FgZPs_fYhbW4EkVz_AK5NnsZ0TYXB_2o/edit#gid=0

Should be some more in there to keep you busy @andrewMacmurray! :)

andrewMacmurray commented 7 years ago

thanks @eghale will have a look through

eghale commented 7 years ago

@andrewMacmurray Wonder if there's a way to scrape Twitter as well. Search terms I'd include would be "#techforgood", "#tech4good", "#impactech", "socinn" and "meetup"/"event"

Also you may want to look at this and see if there's a way of pulling these in as well (the UK ones): https://digitalsocial.eu/events

Strategically though, I think it might be better if we stick to grassroots community meetups rather than trying to pull in all the big conferences, as the site above is already trying to do that (not very effectively, but hey). Might help focus it a bit better too. What d'you reckon?

andrewMacmurray commented 7 years ago

closed as able to add custom events with admin dashboard #60