After a Dutch devRant meetup there where multiple people a bit sad they didn't know about the meetup. A user called CoffeeNcode came up with the idea:
After hearing so many people saying "why didn't I know about this meetup?" I think it might be time to do something about that and make a platform for organizing and publishing the dates of meetups. only usernames and date and time of meeting will be visible on the site, anything else will be either accessible via a login only, or I'll set up mail notifications.
So here it is, the project that will make it easier to keep up to date with devRant meetups all around the world.
- Possibility to add whatever contact method you want and per user a possibility to make that contact detail private/public. Other users can by a click send a request to view one or more contact details. The user can then either accept or decline it.
- Location finding by using OSM and maybe a possibility to add public transit APIs to calculate it.
- When making a new meetup the creator can say in which country it will be. Other people can subscribe to a country to get notifications.
Example: Im makimg a new meetup for the Netherlands, if there is a few belgians, french people and germans willing to join the location will average to some place in Limburg probably. - Sharing nice places, some meetups might be in a park and if that was easily accessible and has enough park benches it might become a recommended place which weighs in the location averager.
- Making this into a platform that can be used outside of devrant too
- Use of a geolocation API for the locations, possibly in combination with a MAP to pick location from
- Check if Signal / Threema / etc has an API that can integrate with this application, so notifications can be sent directly to mobile devices