open-source meetup based on github pages

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open-source meetup based on github pages #478

Open silky opened 5 years ago

silky commented 5 years ago

i think if someone went to a moderate amount of effort, it would be possible to establish a meetup-like clone that's essentially a jekyll-pages thing that people fork and re-deploy to do run their own thing

it'd need a simple mailchimp config to manage announcements
some kind of automatic form connection to google-docs
some simple way of adding new events

and that'd be it, right?

like, you can do everything meetup does for free, right?

silky commented 5 years ago

yeah, new events could be done by justing adding a simple templated page:

---
date: ...
title: ...
location: ...
---

etc.

silky commented 5 years ago

then people can manager their attendance by just editing their google-doc submission

perhaps the main frustration is that they can only follow the thing by email.

also, i guess another problem is discovery. though; i reckon it would be possible to query the github api for all the forks of a given repo, so that could just be a list that gets computed on build, somehow?