A simple example illustrating how to collect a centralized list of PowerShell user groups
Keith asked if there were a list of PowerShell user groups. There is not.
- PowerShell.org? Nope. Now it's just a list of events people submit, not of meetup sites themselves.
- PowerShellGroup.org? Nope. This is dead.
Nope nope nope. Stop it. Meetup.com and similar services already exist. Even if something as popular as PowerShell.org or PowerShell.com offer a listing, things will change, be discontinued, or the site itself may atrophy.
All we need is a simple list of locations, and their official user group site. Easy to build and maintain, easy to use.
This is a simple example - you might link to this content, use CI/CD to push it somewhere, etc.
| Location |
|---|
| Boston |
| Philadelphia |
| London |
etc.
I would hesitate to add much more.
- Adding organizer names would convolute things, require more maintenance
- Adding specific meetup dates would convolute things, require folks who maintain meetups to enter data on their own site/service, and this. i.e. some will not
- Other details would likely be more appropriate at the linked user group page, or may not exist for some user groups, leading to convoluted and inconsistent-looking data
Cheers!
If that's all you needed, then PowerShellGroup.org would still be valid. You need a way to clean up the craft listings for user grips that stopped meeting years ago, like http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY that hasn't net since you moved away ;)