Use Meetup API to keep Sponsors and Announcements in Sync

[bmf]

We should investigate the meetup API http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/ to keep this blog in sync with that site. Less work, more payoff.

[lynnaloo]

As @tjwebb would say, "the thing I love more than programming is not programming"

[bmf]

+1

[tjwebb]

https://zapier.com/app/editor/1220166

[lynnaloo]

It would be nice to find a Jekyll/Meetup plugin. As long as we can keep the site running with Jekyll, then we can still host with Github pages which is kind of convenient right now.

[jalbertbowden]

be wary of the meetup api, from experience, it changes on frequently, with very little warning and/or explanations

[lynnaloo]

ugh. Thanks for the warning. We talked to one of the Meetup.com devs at JsConf and he didn't seem to know that the api existed :)

[jalbertbowden]

i think that says it all

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Linda Nichols notifications@github.com wrote:

ugh. Thanks for the warning. We talked to one of the Meetup.com devs at JsConf and he didn't seem to know that the api existed :)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/norfolkjs/norfolkjs.github.io/issues/40#issuecomment-45005979 .

J. Albert Bowden II

jalbertbowden@gmail.com

http://bowdenweb.com/

[lynnaloo]

My vision for this is for the landing page to show future events and move the blog posts to be available through a link. Changing the sponsors page to pull from meetup would be great too.

[qwo]

it calls the meetup api and gets the sponsors only, (perks excluded) and it kind of looks like this.

I suggest updating and making logo uploads of sponsors more consistently sized for it to be easier to style these and naturally look good.

It makes a call to the meetup api and points to their assets.

[lynnaloo]

Nice work, dude. I'll try to upload some better images later.

[qwo]

Looks better with some css styling

[lynnaloo]

+1

[bmf]

This is what i am seeing.

[qwo]

im hotfixing that right now, the api key is revoked and im adding a signed key

[qwo]

theres theres some fall over for the signed urls for groups, ive gotten it to work for events. i need to investigate this further but for right now don't want the site to be buggy

[lynnaloo]

It must've just gotten revoked because I was admiring it not even an hour ago. But yes please fix.

[qwo]

i just hotpatched a new url, i thought it would be ~5 minute fix but the /groups/ route is giving me a 401 for my signed keys. i need to take a look.

[lynnaloo]

Today might be a good day for me to switch the domain to a new provider like I've been wanting to do :)

[bmf]

Some of those graphics look extremely pixelated (pluralsight, stickermule). Any idea of the cause? Could it be the source image on meetup?

[qwo]

yeah @bmf the images on meetup are not the highest quality, if we can find higher res versions of each one and upload them, that should fi it.

[bmf]

@stanzheng how are the sizes of the images handled? If we needed bigger could we get them through the API? Right now, Hatch is illegible. We probably need to come up with a minimum and maximum guide for these.

[qwo]

the heights are fixed 50px , the width are auth, It should scale ok for most logos

.logo {
  margin-right:20px;
  height: 50px;
  width: auto;
}

https://github.com/norfolkjs/norfolkjs.github.io/blob/master/stylesheets/stylesheet.css#L284-288

[qwo]

also its good, the hatch logo is actually apparently incorrect/very antiquated

[qwo]

heres some better res photos for replacement