Make meeting organising tool

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Some sort of tool to allow a group of volunteers to organise a meeting in
within a certain timespan. Primarily it'd be a tool to agree when everyone
is available, and decide on a venue.

- How to make meeting events? Automatically generate them for large
clusters of volunteers? Maybe show a list of nearby meetings, and suggest
setting up a new meeting if they're inappropriate. Basically we want as low
a barrier to committing to the meeting as possible, to encourage people to
come along.
- Event with calendar section over a timespan, clickable to say which days
you are available on (existence of days you are available implies that you
want to attend)
- List of venues suggested/agreed. Either you agree to a venue, or suggest
a new one.
- Maybe a discussion thread below?

This can then be used in a "Have a Democracy Club meetup to discuss local
issues and the election" task.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by timothy.green@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2010 at 11:56

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How about this:

A "meeting" app which, when a volunteer visits its homepage, lists the nearest 
N 
meetings, and allows the user to suggest a new meeting.

Creating a new meeting involves the organiser setting up a choice of dates, a 
venue, 
and an initial message.  I think we should just have the organiser decide on a 
venue 
themselves.  

This generates a new task ("RSVP to Meetup <X>") which is assigned 
automatically to 
the nearest N members within 300km (or something like that).

Doing an RSVP is either the usual "ignore" action, or if you "start" it, you 
see the 
date options, and if you select a "date" option, it's "completed".

Then, once we have a wonderful new messaging system, the discussion thread 
below 
would just be part of that.

This system would, like the messaging system, be open to spam abuse, so we need 
to 
think about that quite hard before launching.

Original comment by seb.ba...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 10:42