freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup. - No fees for organizers - No fees for participants People have been asking us for a free event tool for years. Now Meetup's new pricing scheme is forcing our hand. Let's build it together: discord.gg/vbRUYWS
We have more than 30 freeCodeCamp study groups on Meetup. Some of their organizers have already reached out to me in the past hour since this announcement went live. To all of you organizers: we're going get this live as fast as we can.
I've researched this extensively over the past 2 years, and experimented with most of the major meetup alternatives. This should be self-hosted and have a permissive license (BSD or MIT). Here's the basic feature set I think we need: github.com/freeCodeCamp/e…
We now have a fairly detailed readme up on the repository. Contributors are using both Discord and GitHub issues to discuss user stories and implementation details: github.com/freeCodeCamp/c…
I just wrote an article about Meetup, WeWork, and the open source tool we’re building called Chapter. This explains the situation with WeWork’s price changes, and how developers are fighting back with their own open source tool. (4 minute read)
We did it. WeWork / Meetup are backing down from their RSVP-based pricing. For now... I added a big update to my article that explains the situation.