Joe Scarry wrote:
Re: signups/rsvps: The Joomla Chicago site uses Registration Pro - developed by Mike Carson, one of the founders of the group. Whoa, I was just looking at Registration Pro this morning. I didn't know it was developed by Mike Carson!! How cool!
It is a very serious tool for managing events and keeping track of who's coming. You can contact Mike at
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. Thank you, I will contact him because I had a question about the e-mail reminders...
Can you say more about what you like about Meetup? I've never used it . . . I'm wondering if we should use it for promoting our Joomla events . . . we also have some very informal tech get-togethers here in Evanston . . . . what are the pros and cons?Meetup was how I found this group here, so
the current Meetup group is already providing good advertising. You should definitely use it to promote your Joomla events. Meetup is getting more and more popular, and almost always places at the top of Google searches, so even if you make this group here the "main" group and use the Meetup group as a pointer to here, it would be worth the cost (which is $12-19 a month, depending on the payment plan). It has a great calendar setting, and administrators (Organizers) can check the option to send out reminder e-mails. Meetup can categorize the reminders according to who has RSVP'd "No," "Maybe," "Yes," and those who haven't RSVP'd at all.
The downside is that the messageboard is from the Dark Ages, there is the monthly cost, and one can't choose the option to NOT receive reminder e-mails.
As far as your informal Evanston tech get-togethers, because of the cost associated with Meetup, I don't know if I can recommend it, unless the members are willing to shell out a couple bucks. If they are willing, then yes, I would give it a try for a month or two and see what you think.
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