UX/IA: Add list of events

[Kriesse]

Add a list of all upcoming events (and past events).

A short version (next event only) could live on the front page.
The complete list could live under a new page "/events"/

minimum data per event:

• date
• start time
• end time
• city
• venue
• sign up link attendees
• sign up link coaches

[lukaszklis]

We can query the meetup.com's API for this. At the moment, we're fetching the list of the upcoming events: https://github.com/cssconf/CSSclasses/blob/master/assets/js/upcoming-events.js#L17

I would love to refactor the "upcomingEvents", so we could fetch the upcoming and the past events. Also, as mentioned in https://github.com/verpixelt/moby/issues/18, this solution is not bullet-proof. We can make it one, but we would have to create a separate account for CSSclasses.

[Kriesse]

@lukaszklis Is there an alternative API that is independent from what we use for registrations? I would love to keep using the OTS meetup account, as they have a much bigger reach than we could build. Also, we might sometimes not use meetup.com at all (e.g. for #spookycode, or for new groups in different cities).

How about Lanyrd?

[lukaszklis]

I've checked Lanyrd and unfortunately they don't seem to provide one (even though, they claim to have one released 3 years ago…). What about any of the "tickets-management" systems like Eventbrite or Ticketleap? I'll try to test both, but it seems like Eventbrite will be the safest to go.

[lukaszklis]

So, as agreed – for now let's go with a YAML-based solution (similar to up.front).