Get Together

Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

Goals

• Be feature-competitive with Meetup.com
• Allow multiple instances to share federated event data
• Provide sustainable, cost-effective hosting for FOSS communites
• Be developed and maintained by the communities using it

Getting Started

To start running the service use the following commands:

virtualenv --python=python3 ./env

./env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

./env/bin/python manage.py migrate

./env/bin/python manage.py createsuperuser

./env/bin/python manage.py runserver

Test Federation

You can import sample event data into your "Searchable" table with this command:

./env/bin/python manage.py import http://people.ubuntu.com/~mhall119/searchable_test.json

Getting Involved

To contibute to Get Together, you can file issues here on GitHub, work on features you want it to have, or contact @mhall119 on IRC, Telegram or Twitter to learn more.

Currently the project needs:

• Designers
  • We need a color scheme for the website
  • We need a logo for the project
  • We need user stories and mockups for those pages
• Front-end developers
  • We need to pick a JS/CSS framework for the front-end
  • We need to Django page templates
  • We need to know what APIs are needed for a dynamic front-end
• QA Engineers
  • We need Django test cases setup
  • We need fuzz-testing setup with something like model-mommy
  • We want testing automated on github pull requests
• API/Federation experts
  • We need to decide on using AppStream or rolling our own data/protocol
  • We need to architect what data will be federated and it's use cases
  • We need to support authenticated access to APIs for 3rd party apps
• Devops
  • We need a way to easily deploy and update GetTogether in production
  • We need an easy way to get a development environment up and running
  • We need to find a hosting service for gettogether.community

If you can help with any of these, please get in touch with me!