[okfn-discuss] OKFN-meetup / travellers list/service/dashboard idea

Fri Jul 15 22:27:16 UTC 2011

A shared calendar is not good enough? For example Google calendars
can be shared with different people or with a group.

On 07/15/2011 03:33 PM, Lucy Chambers wrote:
> A slightly off-the-wall idea, but I would appreciate the list's input:
> 
> I regularly am contacted by people saying, "I am going to be in such
> and such a city on such and such a date, can you put me in touch with
> anyone there I can talk to?". I think it is quite important that the
> OKF support a mechanism for supporting independent meetups of
> like-minded people.
> 
> Ideally, we will have the dashboard with the map of members up and
> running soon, so it will become very easy to see who is where (and
> ideally, people will be contactable through it).
> 
> But I wondered about possibly having a specific mailing list /
> mechanism on the site for things like this (e.g.
> OKFN-meetups-worldwide (ww) , so that people could announce their
> intention to start something in their area and measure interest for
> e.g. setting up a mailing list for a given area..., or people who are
> travelling can ask who is in the area and keen to meet up)
> 
> Maybe mailing list is the wrong way to do it, but perhaps we could
> build some kind of function to place planned meetings / "would like to
> meet people in such and such an area" on our members map as an
> additional function (don't know how easy it would be to do!)?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Lucy
> 
> Just a thought,
> 
> Lucy
> 

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