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Discussion on: So meetup.com is going to charge attendees in future - what's next for event organizers?

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Ben Halpern

Ah, nice. It's great to have multiple open source driven orgs getting into the mix. FCC is also non-profit, which is great.

If we get involved in building out our Meetup-esque suite of features, I'd hope we can achieve cohesion and compatibility with other projects and companies.

We don't need to provide some of this tooling to be useful and "successful" so I'd just as soon see FCC succeed as with us, however I do think we have a different style of building open source software and different approaches (and tech preferences) so I would say that I wouldn't necessarily reach to try and collaborate with them on this.

Anyway, it's all pretty neat!

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Chris Achard

Yeah, I think having multiple options is a good thing; it will be interesting to see what they (and you!) come up with

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Ben Halpern

I definitely think direct collaboration could be in the cards, and wouldn't dismiss that.

Maybe a collaboration on a protocol of sorts (or agreeing to work together with an existing one) could be the right solution.

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Eugene Cheah

Agreed, thinking a lot along these lines.

This also prevents any group from holding too much power. And a repeat of this happening.

Not too sure if it has to be a new setup.
Or something built on existing ones (iCal, RSS, etc)