Open Stack

On 08/03/2016 09:36 AM, Jimmy McArthur wrote:
> We're already collecting this information by adding Regional as well as
> City, State, Country fields into the Event registration on
> openstack.org. Still on the list to coordinate with groups.openstack.org
> to make sure we're gathering / passing the same information.

One of the intentions of groups.openstack.org was to become the
canonical source of all community events: it has all the capabilities
needed, from home pages for each group, role management, calendars, and
more. Working groups could use it, too, as it could be a lot nicer to
use than the wiki.

The site came out of a need to aggregate in one place *automatically*
events created by groups anywhere they existed (meetup.com, google
groups, etc) and provide groups with alternatives to meetup.com and
aspired to be more like the social network for openstack users, a tool
to get to know our users wherever they are. Its development has never
been fast, resources always too limited. In its current form it's
nothing more than a pretty map and a couple of static pages.

Since groups.openstack.org was launched, a lot of features have been
added *also* to openstack.org/community/events and that seem to create
confusion, and duplicate entries (for example, OpenStack Days Silicon
Vallye appears twice now --once entered from
openstack.org/community/events/post-an-event and once imported via
meetup.com to groups.o.o).

I would suggest to check if groups.openstack.org at this point is still
needed or if its resources should be put somewhere else.

/stef