Create a section for Python user groups

[datapythonista]

Having a database of Python user groups can be useful, for example to automatically import their events into the python.org website.

This ticket has three parts:

• (Create UserGroup model. #1176) Create a model for Python user groups (see fields below)
• Create a section in www.python.org to visualize the existing Python user groups
• Create a form to submit Python user groups

At the moment the Python user groups are listed in a wiki: https://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups

A list of possible fields of the model could be:

• Name
• Location (it can be a city, a country)
• URL (it can be a meetup, a distribution list, or others, a calculated field that returns the type could be useful)
• Started date
• Approved (boolean, to flag meetups that have been submitted but not yet reviewed, and should not be listed)
• Trusted (trusted groups will have their events automatically added)

[berkerpeksag]

This sounds reasonable to me, but I'd like get feedback from the PSF. Ping @ejodlowska and @MarkMangoba.

[MarkMangoba]

+1, thank you for this @datapythonista let me do another quick check to make sure this is OK.

[MarkMangoba]

also @malemburg any thoughts possibly around importing their current events?

[berkerpeksag]

I've just merged PR #1176 and updated the first message of this issue.

[malemburg]

Events should still go through the usual workflow and be added to the Google calendars.

Please also note: Many user groups have reoccurring events and these need to be handled differently in the calendars (one entry instead one per event). User groups also sometimes run larger events which then need to go into the events calendar instead of the user group one.

[datapythonista]

Thanks for the comments @malemburg. I agree reoccurring events can be tricky, and we need to consider the two calendars.

The idea is to have a page or send a (weekly?) email with all the events obtained from meetup groups, so they can be added to the calendars manually with a single click. So, as you say, they'll still follow the same workflow.

We'll see after this version how it works, and if it makes sense to implement more changes, or we can automate it even further.