Pramod, the proposed API for feeds doesn't solve the problem of finding all the relevant meetups. We will need to look at other options.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Amol Kekre <[email protected]> wrote: > The link looks good as it will pick up all meetups that follow ApacheApex > as it should. With regards to events that mention Apex, we do need to > figure out. Lately these events outnumber those hosted at Apache Apex > meetups, as it should. Hopefully the feed api posted by Pramod solves this. > > Thks, > Amol > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Pramod Immaneni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Can we use meetup api to auto-populate meetups from meetups.com on the > > apex > > website > > > > http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/feeds/ > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Sasha Parfenov <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Amol, I think a direct link to meetup site is a great idea. This way > > users > > > will always see the most up to date information. > > > > > > I have made the proposed change to the community page. > > > http://apex.incubator.apache.org/community.html > > > > > > For future meetups, we can keep updating it manually for now, but I > will > > > look at options to call Meetup API and generate this list. The only > > issue > > > is if I only include upcoming events from Apex meetup groups, we will > > miss > > > other groups, which may be covering Apex, like > > > http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/events/228573587/ for example. So it may > > > have > > > to be a string search, which may occasionally include unwanted meetups. > > > > > > If anybody has suggestions on this, please comment. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sasha > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:08 AM, amol kekre <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > We are having a lot of meetups and the event list keeps growing. On > the > > > > following page > > > > http://apex.incubator.apache.org/community.html > > > > we list all the meetups at the end. Should we just have the following > > > link? > > > > http://apache-apex.meetup.com/ > > > > This link is kept upto date by meetup.com (they index a few times a > > > day). > > > > > > > > Secondly, on this page > > > http://apex.incubator.apache.org/announcements.html > > > > we have upcoming events on the top right. It is hard to keep this up > to > > > > date. Should we remove it and figure out another way to list events > > > > > > > > Thks, > > > > Amol > > > > > > > > > >
