Alternative to Eventbrite?

[Brian Cardarella]

Does anybody know of one. Preferably something with a wait list
component. Eventbrite is charging me $31 a month, it's starting to add
up.

- Brian

[Pascal Rettig]

I know it was shot down for a while back (can't remember why), but Michael does already have the meetup page up and it does waiting lists:

http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Ruby-Group/

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[Scott Schulthess]

meetup.com is apparently 12-19$ per month

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[Dan Seaver]

I know Meetup has a waiting list, but it isn't free either.  The New England Sitecore group uses it, and I've been on the waitlist before

Here is the dues page:

http://www.meetup.com/help/Does-it-cost-money-to-start-a-Meetup-Group

[Brian Cardarella]

Yeah, I'm not interested in using the Meetup group.

I'm thinking I'm just going to build an invite component onto
BostonRB. I wanted to stay away from adding any more tables but it
looks like it is necessary.

- Brian

[Brian Kaney]

Check out http://guestlistapp.com/ it's pretty nice and free if the event is free.

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[Craig P Jolicoeur]

I would say its probably best to just roll your own into the site. It's a pretty simple piece of functionality and you could implement it with the exact features you want at no cost instead of trying to make some other 3rd party system work.

- Craig

On Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Brian Cardarella wrote:

> Yeah, I'm not interested in using the Meetup group.
>
> I'm thinking I'm just going to build an invite component onto
> BostonRB. I wanted to stay away from adding any more tables but it
> looks like it is necessary.
>
> - Brian
>

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dan Seaver <d...@danseaver.com (mailto:d...@danseaver.com)> wrote:
> > I know Meetup has a waiting list, but it isn't free either. The New England
> > Sitecore group uses it, and I've been on the waitlist before
> > Here is the dues page:
> > http://www.meetup.com/help/Does-it-cost-money-to-start-a-Meetup-Group
> >
> > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Brian Cardarella wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody know of one. Preferably something with a wait list
> > component. Eventbrite is charging me $31 a month, it's starting to add
> > up.
> >
> > - Brian
> >
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[Ben Tucker]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Brian Kaney <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

Check out http://guestlistapp.com/  it's pretty nice and free if the event is free.

 

+1

I was about to suggest Guestlist.

[Brian Cardarella]

@Brian This looks pretty good, I'm going to play around with it and
see if it fits out needs. Thanks!

@Chris I've been toying with the idea for a while. In fact, there is
an open issue for this https://github.com/bostonrb/bostonrb/issues/109
The major advantage of rolling our own is being able to tie it in with
the BostonRB calendar. It would be nice if I didn't even have to
create a new event, it automatically created them from the calendar
events.

- Brian

[Pito Salas]

NIH ?

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[Brian Cardarella]

@pito this is definitely not a "Not Invented Here" issue. I would
prefer not to build out the feature. But tying it into the Google
Calendar has some wins. Specifically it means one less thing I have to
do.

- Brian

[Patrick Robertson]

I think as a community we should try and optimize on giving Brian more time to kick ass at organizing BostonRB events by helping to reduce the amount of mundane work needed.

- Patrick Robertson

[Randy Cole]

guestlistapp is limited to 10 Million tickets per type per event.  I know Brian wants to scale past that ;)

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[Kevin Menard]

Brian,

Let me know what you end up going with. If you have a desire to stick
with EventBrite, I can make a donation on behalf of Mogotest.
Obviously something free that provides all the features you want would
be better, but the offer's there.

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Brian Cardarella

[Brice Stacey]

If anyone wanted to pair up at the next hackfest, I wouldn't mind helping implement the guest list. Regardless of whether we decide to use it, I think it would be an excellent learning opportunity for using VCR, timecop, capybara acceptance tests, etc, etc. I'm generally unfamiliar with these tools.

Anyone interested? Brian, if this is a bad idea feel free to shoot it down :)

Brice

[Dan Croak]

We've got some code from http://design.thoughtbot.com that we could re-use on Boston.rb's Rails app if people like the "register with Twitter" style.

[Brian Cardarella]

I don't think signup with Twitter would work for Gemvara as they need
the actual name of the person to match the name on their license.

- Brian