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Displaying and using Meetup.com data #347

Closed ondrae closed 8 years ago

ondrae commented 9 years ago

Description

We're busy working on attendance tools to accurately measure the participation in the civic technology movement.

What we want from attendance is names, emails, and participation. Building our own tools gets us this.

Meetup.com is the main tool our Brigades use to organize their events. http://code-for-america-brigade.meetup.com/

Meetup has an API. http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/

We never wanted to use it, because you can't get emails from it. We can get RSVPs and attendance though. If we are okay with not having emails for all attendance, then Meetups tools become useful to us.

What if we gave Brigades the choice, use our custom built attendance tools OR Meetup's checkin features. We'll accept both into our PeopleDB.

We'd still be able to provide the Brigade organizers with incredibly useful metrics about their group's participation. We'd still have incredibly useful metrics of attendance across the whole civic tech movement.

We just wouldn't have as many emails signed up on our mailing list. I'm okay with that.

ondrae commented 9 years ago

@cbracy I think this is what our first versions will look like. We'll tell Brigade's to either use our tools, or Meetup.com's checkin service. Both will give us attendance data.

All of those groups will get useful attendance views. screen shot 2015-07-10 at 12 17 09 pm

The group's that mostly use Meetup, we won't be able to give specific members attendance related Badges or whatever in the future.

ondrae commented 9 years ago

The only rub right now, is the weird way we have Meetup set up for all the groups. Some of them are under Hannah's account, some are under Preston's. I'll need to get API keys for both of them, to have permission to access attendance for the groups they control. Which is okay, just weird.

You said Meetup api changes were coming. I'd like to have one organizational account that has access to all of the Meetup groups.

cbracy commented 9 years ago

We actually consolidated all of our accounts so there should only be one account you need to access. Michael Santus or Hannah will have details.

Catherine Bracy Director of Community Organizing Code for America @cbracy | bracy@codeforamerica.org

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Hyder notifications@github.com wrote:

The only rub right now, is the weird way we have Meetup set up for all the groups. Some of them are under Hannah's account, some are under Preston's. I'll need to get API keys for both of them, to have permission to access attendance for the groups they control. Which is okay, just weird.

You said Meetup api changes were coming. I'd like to have one organizational account that has access to all of the Meetup groups.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade/issues/347#issuecomment-120501721 .

ondrae commented 8 years ago

@wbushy started work on this at https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/cfapi_attendance_sync

ondrae commented 8 years ago

Description

For us to access attendance data, we need to have co-organizer access from our brigade-info@codeforamerica.org Meetup API key. We should do a big push for all of our Brigades to give our account co-organizer access.

Steps

  1. We need to go and join all of the Brigades groups with our account. This can be done manually by visiting each group and joining. Perhaps we can use the api too.
  2. We get the current organizers of the Brigades to add Code for America Brigade as a co-organizer or assistant organizer.
  3. We can have the carrot that once they do, we'll start adding their attendance data to our tool. Perhaps we pay for it as well?
ondrae commented 8 years ago

I just manually joined each of these Brigades from our main account. We should ask each of them to make us "Code for America Brigade" at least an assistant organizer.

http://www.meetup.com/BetaNYC/ http://www.meetup.com/HacksHackersAfrica/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Melbourne-Community-Drinks-Hacknight/ http://www.meetup.com/CodeForBoulder/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenBrazil/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Dayton/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Greensboro/ http://www.meetup.com/open_kawasaki/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Maine/ http://www.meetup.com/code-for-nashville/ http://www.meetup.com/CodeforNRV/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-NoVA/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Philly/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-San-Jose/ http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-South-Africa-Hackers/ http://www.meetup.com/Rhode-Island-Code-for-America-Brigade/ http://www.meetup.com/code-for-seoul/ http://www.meetup.com/Civic-hacking-Madison/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-Data-Monterrey/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-Government-Civic-Technology-Meetup-by-Open-Austin/

http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Berlin/ http://www.meetup.com/OKLab-Wuppertal-Meetup/ http://www.meetup.com/datalove-OK-Lab-Ulm/ http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Stuttgart-Meet-Up/ http://www.meetup.com/OKLab-Paderborn/ http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Munster/ http://www.meetup.com/code-for-muenchen/ http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Magdeburg/ http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Leipzig/ http://www.meetup.com/OKLab-Koln-Meetup http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Karlsruhe/ http://www.meetup.com/OK-Lab-Jena/

http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-civic-hacking/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-Houston/ http://www.meetup.com/OpenLexington/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-Nebraska-Meetup/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-Pittsburgh-our-Regions-Code-for-America-Brigade/ http://www.meetup.com/Open-San-Diego/

ondrae commented 8 years ago

Skip all of this. We're going to separate out the Meetup rsvps from the attendance data. Read more at https://github.com/codeforamerica/cfapi/issues/243