I don’t think that we should be using sites likes Eventbrite, because why we would lock ourselves again into some proprietary system? We would give information who is coming and attending our meetings to somebody to use and reuse that data at will. Sorry, but that is a bad suggestion.
I think there are two questions here:
- a site where one can see all events which are happening in the OK space
- a site which one can use to help make the local events possible
I think that OpenACalendar is more suitable for the first thing. But with discontinuation of Meetup, we need the second thing. How can people coordinate organization of the events, see how is coming there, learn more about them, send messages and announce changes, locations, and so on. Meetup was not jut a calendar.
OpenACalendar could be more suitable for Open Science Calendar
Of course all this things should work together. Events made through second thing should appear automatically in the first thing.