Update the website with the new technical meetup focus.

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The current website does not express the recent decision to focus on technical meetup groups and lessen the promotion of privacy and data ownership as the main reasons to consider Guildflow.

To help validate this decision and create a space to discuss what issues these meetups face and my ideas to solve them I want to do a larger update of the website explaining the features I have in mind.

I may accompany these features with some mockup visuals to help express the vision but I welcome feedback even now on the general direction and wording. Thanks.

The Guildflow Vision

Guildflow wants to be the best place on the web to host a technical meetup group. Using Guildflow your technical meetup can…

Build a rich event history with presentation archives, including slides and videos.

Speakers spend hours crafting quality presentations for your group, and Guildflow makes it easy to document, index and archive these talks, allowing you to create and attach Presentations to an Event. as well as archive assets like pdfs, slides, videos and Markdown notes.

Spend more time on group activities via automating admin tasks.

Running a meetup group is not a huge time commitment but instead a lot of small tasks over time. Guildflow helps you identify, organize and share these tasks amongst the group leadership. Have common things to do per meeting? Or per new member? Or per inactive member? Guildflow helps connect the common lifecycle events of a meetup group to actionable tasks that can be shared, assigned and if possible automated (sending emails, tweets, requesting slides, etc.).

Motivate speakers through a personal resumes of technical presentations and projects.

Wow friends and potential employers with a rich resume-like index of technical presentations you’ve delivered across multiple technical meetups. Use this public profile to also share your apps, side projects and blogs.

Utilize an open API and tool integrations to create a custom and unique web of community tools.

Guildflow helps meetup groups define a home base of operations, but it would be ignorant to think Guildflow can be all things to all people. We embrace open interrogations and help you connect with your unique choice of tools. Slack or Discord for chat, YouTube or Vimeo for videos, Twitter or Micro.blog for marketing. Or use our API and lifecycle webhooks to build your own interrogations. You have access to your full membership data.

And all the rest you’d expect!

• Build and share an event calendar with RSVPs.
• Limit Video Chat URLs sharing to RSVPed members.
• Provide a tech-focused membership directory so people can learn more about each other.
• Create a custom Membership Application to capture background info before letting unverified people get group access.
• Publish custom pages to help document things like code of conduct
• Honor the privacy and data ownership rights of your members with clear policy and exports.

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I took a crack at this today. Let me know what you think of this feature list breakdown and draft layout.

Features

• Curate Members
  • Customize your membership application.
  • Share private join links to prospective members.
  • Promote group directory with tech-friendly member profiles.
  • Send broadcast emails to the entire membership or just those attending an event
• Host Events
  • Document agenda and presentations with rich Markdown descriptions.
  • Collect RSVPs from Members.
  • Publish online Video Chat URL only with RSVPed members.
• Document Past Events
  • Connect presentations to members to build a rich history
  • Attach slides, notes, photos, videos and links.
  • Share publicly or limit to members-only.
• Automate and Track Repetitive Admin Tasks
  • Define common things to do for meetings, new members, inactive members, etc.
  • Assign tasks across the leadership
  • Perform integrated tasks from Guildflow, such as posting event announcements to Twitter.
• Personalize Your Experience
  • Choose a public or private privacy level for the group website.
  • Create custom content pages for things like Group Code of Conduct, Leadership Profiles, Sponsor Info or Slack Invites.
  • Subscribe to group or member specific iCal event feeds.
  • Connect to a GraphQL API and build out custom integrations.
• Own Your Data and Empower Member Privacy
  • Guildflow is the only meetup solution that has a structured, legal and documented way for members to opt-in a group export.
  • Access and export the full data of your group when you need to, including member emails.