Allow multiple groups to collaborate on a meetup with shared RSVP limit
Allow multiple groups to collaborate on a meetup and share on RSVP limit. Currently meetup groups could do so much more to encourage participation if they just had the ability to collaborate on group. As is, one group has to take the lead and that means joining that group and all the ratings attribute to that group which some organizers are not willing to let happen.
Mike Schinkel
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116 comments
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Anonymous
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Please add this feature :)
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Anonymous
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Yes it's an old request. Yes Meetup has ignored it so far. But we need to keep showing them we want this. We (organizers) are paying customers of Meetup.com and we'd like a response.
If you as an organizer want to make it "group policy" not to allow shared events fine. But there are groups that are more collaborative than that -- groups that want to share with their own membership, what other groups are doing.
I manage several groups, and collaborate with several more. All we need is a convenient way to include one group's event on another group's calendar -- with their permission of course.
If you don't intend to do this, please explain why.
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Meetup Organizer
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I can explain several reasons why this is difficult for Meetup to do. For one there are permission issues: both regarding event visibility, and visibility of members who are not in the group "hosting" the event. At this point I'd settle for a clean way to host an event in group A, but publicize and link from Groups B, C, D and E. That would force members of any other group to join group A to RSVP, but then permissions, counts and visibility would be simple and work as they do now.
When the San Jose or Mount Diablo Astronomical Societies hold events my group might be interested in, I'd like to to be able to create a link that points to the actual events, keeps the RSVP, time and description as it is in the other group but makes that visible in my group.
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George K
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No, and for many reasons. In fact many seasoned organizers have made it their group policy to not allow shared events. There is good and bad in everything but too many problems here.
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Gwen
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I agree this should be re-reviewed by Meetup. I know our larger event planning would really benefit from this!
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Michael B.
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Wow Steven... you're right! I have noticed 'top ideas' seem to be ignored by meetup and can't figure out why the ignore demand. I know of a lot of people who hav moved-on out of meetup, but I guess they count on a consistant in flow of new people?
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Steven Christenson
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I know somewhere there is another similar idea which is a few months older than this one. I did a search and there are perhaps 1000 votes for this idea, but Meetup doesn't seem to be interested.
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Steven Christenson
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Don't waste votes here. This idea was proposed LONG ago. Meetup hasn't done anything with this which was proposed in 2009!
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Steven Christenson
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This is a very old request (2009). You are wasting votes here. See THIS instead:
http://meetup.uservoice.com/forums/37079-ideas-and-suggestions-for-meetup/suggestions/430881-allow-multiple-groups-to-collaborate-on-a-meetup-w -
Anonymous
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I had that same idea, I collaborate with many other groups around town and it's a hassle to copy and paste all of the event details and then manage 2 lists of RSVPs.
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Awesomo 2000
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YES!!!!!!! Awesome idea!
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Awesomo 2000
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Awesome idea!
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Justin Reese commented
This feature would help me out a lot. I've created meetups that are sponsored by multiple Meetup groups and cross posting leads to confusion with RSVP's
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Vanessa
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Absolutely!! this is a great idea. totally make sense!!
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Michael Davenport commented
I am an admin for a hacker space that hosts many meet-up groups I would really appreciate the ability to share an even with the other groups
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All Organizers around the world
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Yet another top no-brainer! All of us organizers love to collaborate with each other..... and we would love to collaborate with meetup by having them listen to our ideas and suggestions like this one!
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John
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Oh wow! This idea was suggested in 2009?!!!!! Why do they provide an ideas forum, but then not take action on their paying customers wants?!!!
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John
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Wish I had more than one vote to use, but I used them on all of the top 3 ideas! This idea is as good as them all!
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Robert McDougall
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Agree. From a programming view, assuming there is a table for groups, and a table for events which contains the RSVP limit. Then all that needs to be done is create a new table which joins multiple groups to multiple events, and incorporate this throughout. The main advantage would be cross pollination of groups, and the organiser still controls the event regardless of who comes.
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Louis Wendruck
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It's a wonderful idea in theory but probably very difficult to do technologically, and Meetup probably doesn't have the time, money and technical expertise to implement this enhancement.
For example:
It takes a lot of computer power to maintain data bases and synchronize data. I am amazed at the technology and great service that Meetup provides for the little money we pay as group organizers to have these Meetup groups.
Think about it. If it costs $80,000 a year in salary plus computer costs to design enhancements to a computer system then that would take the annual fees of 445 paying Meetup organizers to finance $80,000 of development costs.
My mathematical calculation is $80,000 divided by $180 annual fees per organizer = 445 organizers fees.
($15 per month x 12 months = $180 annual fees per meetup organizer.)
