Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Originally posted to #2349785: [Meta] Features plan for group managers, or, stay for the community:
Many local groups use Meetup or Eventbrite in conjunction with GDO in order to list events. This isn't just because of repeating events functionality, it's also a way to expose the events to a broader audience, especially new folks. (Those new to a city often check Meetup to see what events are happening, for instance.) It would be nice to create a way to pull in event listings from one or both sites through their APIs.
Comments
Comment #1
sreynen commentedWe wouldn't want to make Groups reliant on meetup.com continuing to function as it does now (APIs change, get shutdown, etc.), so I think the best approach here would be an option to post events to meetup.com while they're being posted to Groups. https://www.drupal.org/project/meetup_api looks like it could help with that, but would need some custom code. The integration would need to fail gracefully, so Groups would continue working even if meetup.com can't be reached for some reason. It should probably also be written in a way that is ready to add additional event sync options.
This is a complex feature and it might be best to implement external to Groups. We already have iCal feeds, so someone could read those and post the events to Meetup.com, and end up with a service that could be used with any iCal feed, not just Groups.
Comment #2
rootwork100% agree we don't want to be reliant on Meetup
I think this would be a really nice feature to have, and probably also lower in priority than some of the other things identified. (And of course if a bunch of people respond saying this feature is critical, I'll agree!)
Comment #3
geerlingguy commentedSince we (Drupal STL) do most of our organizing through Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/drupalstl/), but also post back to groups.drupal.org from time to time, it would be nice to formalize that relationship somehow. We also have a group website (http://drupalstl.org/) and a camp-specific website each year. It would also be nice to link those from the home page somehow. Maybe just a block where we could add a few links?
Comment #4
sreynen commentedSomething to review after D7 migration.
Comment #5
avpadernoThe only development done on groups.drupal.org is to replace it. The plan seems to migrate it into drupal.org, as described in #2590497: [meta] Proposal to migrate groups into Drupal.org.