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New way to handle event listing #12

Closed sethetter closed 8 years ago

sethetter commented 11 years ago

Right now we are pulling our events in from Meetup.com. Since we plan to cut that out as a cost very soon we need to figure out a new way to handle events on the UpFront website.

We have two options:

  1. Use Google Calendar -- this API is functional, however it doesn't link to the actual G+ event, so it will have to be created on the calendar as well as in G+
  2. Manage events on site -- Basically the same issue as above, each event has to be created twice.

The benefit of the first approach is that we can share this calendar with people and they can integrate it with their own Google calendars.

Either way, it doesn't seem like we have a solid way of avoiding duplication of data.

Thoughts?

sethetter commented 11 years ago

So, further discussion has lead us to NOT close our Meetup.com membership. So we will continue to go with this. We still have two places we are creating events at (G+ and Meetup), but this isn't a terrible thing.

What we should discuss still is what to do with events on the site. Currently clicking on one of the events takes us to the Meetup page. Ideally we would want the G+ page to be where they are led to (since the live stream is hosted there).

Perhaps we should discuss strategies to have a more effective single event view page, or some way to link them to the G+ event page instead of Meetup (without using the G+ API, of course).

Thoughts?