Maptime "Upcoming Events" Page

[mapsam]

As discussed on Slack, we're looking to find a solution for showing all upcoming maptime meetings. This is rather difficult currently because of the current nature of how Maptime chapters announce their events. A good portion are on meetup.com, but this is by no means required – the rest either being on personal websites or via twitter and others that I'm likely unaware of.

In order to do this effectively, events will need to be located in one location. Proposed solutions are as follows:

1. Using a google form to submit an upcoming maptime event for your local chapter. This form populates a spreadsheet, which can be queried via tabletop.js and showcased into a page on the website. A prototype has been put together by MaptimeSEA on their repo, called maptimetime. user friendly, maintainable
2. Use @csterling's database and query it. This would be nice for speed, but difficult for updating. I'm lacking in knowledge about this potential option. fast, reliable
3. Add upcoming meetings to the chapters.geojson file, which would require significant upkeep by branch organizers. concise, organized(?)
4. Manually on a page, old school style!
5. fork calagator and make a maptime events board. labor intensive, stalwart

Let's see what we can do!

[jonahadkins]

#1 Seems Good - We're already using Google Forms for post-meet surveys, etc.

[lyzidiamond]

I <3 tabletop! I also vote for the first option. 🐧 🇺🇸 ✳️

[mapsam]

Cool - sounds like we can make a quick survey to append to the potential onboarding page - just need to determine what information to collect!

Here's the current test form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OfA8sV0Vs0-WlCwRBALC8p_RR1zMFS-WXYtXnyDzTA0/viewform

ps: sorry for not putting this in /maptime/maptime repo ... didn't know it existed!

[geografa]

I really am liking Typeform but haven't had the chance to set anything up. https://typeform.com/. It's 10 bucks a month to collect responses which doesn't seem bad for the ease of making forms and collecting user data. See the events and surveys examples.

[mapsam]

@geografa does typeform do anything that the google form doesn't? Looks like they have an API at least. http://helpcenter.typeform.com/hc/en-us/articles/200071986-Data-API

I've updated the prototype with some new date functionality. Would be interesting to build some sort functions to view only a specific chapter.

[lyzidiamond]

Might not be super helpful, but check out the cfapi: http://github.com/codeforamerica/cfapi

[mapsam]

Ohhh interesting - would adding these events in CfA be a problem administratively?

[mapsam]

OH wait jk are you talking about forking it?

[lyzidiamond]

@svmatthews yes, forking 😜 🍼 🔌

[mapsam]

🍴 🍔 🙊

[mapsam]

So, how would we like to showcase this information visually? A list of upcoming events or in a calendar format?

[jonahadkins]

[mapsam]

Right on - so is this something we want ot load on every page? Could be a drag on page speed because of tabletop.js calling the spreadsheet. Maybe we can at least build in a loading.gif for safe measure.

[geografa]

What about upcoming ones only show if they're within the next two weeks and then all others list on the chapters page?

[jonahadkins]

👍