IMHO anything that is more than simply allowing non-vouched Mozillians to RSVP is out of scope. So I think a big part of those comments include too many things.
The feature request for moderating the RSVP can be found here: 1364647 - Feature Request: Manually Add/Remove Mozillian/Reps Attendees to an Event
Now, if we agree that non-vouched Mozillians should be able to RSVP, but only if there is a moderation, we should mark it as a blocker.
Now my more elaborate feedback (after thinking about a bit more, somehow contradicting to my initial one):
- Should the Reps portal be a full-featured event platform? Using it for non-vouched Mozillians would suggest that. I don’t think it should be. We would end up building a new Meetup.com or whatever is out there, and I’m sure we can’t do it better than the big players. I don’t even want to talk about resources available now and in the future to develop and maintain it. I understand the need of having a full-featured event platform, I’m personally using meetup.com for our community in Switzerland. For that we should look into integrating with a platform, not building our own though. I know that Open Innovation Products& Engineering (cc @hmitsch/@akilroy ) is looking into SplashThat for CoSS. Maybe they can share more about the current status there?
- If we allow non-vouched Mozillians to RSVP, that would mean making everyone register as a Mozillian on mozillians.org before RSVP’ing. Is that something we want? Another doubt from my side to be honest.
I think this is a completely different topic, and if that should be discussed, another topic here on Discourse might be better suited for that.
So far my feedback.
Cheers,
Michael