Data Validator for Tech Group / Organizations

[allella]

I found a couple URLs changed already. If/as the data gets stale, it gets less trusted, and therefore less used. That's a big potential problem.

A tool to visit URLs, email the organizer an "anything changed" email once every couple months, and something to validate that the event site is still active would be handy.

I could see this sending notices to an admin to start.

[allella]

Ideas from August 4th 2015
like using MailChimp reconfirm or validating organizer name changes using the APIs

[joewalling]

The Upstate Events list is great. However, I can't tell how to deal with bad data and someone suggested I put it on this issue. The event link for the GSP Developers' Guild should be http://www.meetup.com/Greenville-Spartanburg-Developers-Guild/. While we have a FB page, it is ancillary to our website and meetup. Thanks.

[allella]

Thanks @joewalling.

@rhynodesigns and I made a validator last month and it is checking for 404 errors and redirects, but it wouldn't pick up on such things.

Dave Brothers is going to update the listing.

[enmande]

@joewalling GSP Developer's Guild entry is updated.

[allella]

This is where we're directing the public to suggest changes. Since a number of us now have accounts I figured to assign this to folks so they are more likely to see any future comments from the public.

[allella]

The tech meetup list now has fields for homepage vs event calendar/service homepage.

We'll validate against both URLs.

https://data.openupstate.org/organizations

[Luke-Tech]

On https://hackgreenville.com/orgs, two updates for this page:
The "ISSA Security-Professionals" group has a meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/UpstateSC-Information-Systems-Security-Association-ISSA/ and is an active organization. It may have been marked inactive as the current linked webpage was getting stale.

The "DC864 DEF CON" group homepage should be https://www.dc864.org/

Thanks for looking into these!

[allella]

Thanks @Luke-Tech

These changes have been made.

If you'd like to help update the data directly then just let me know and I can setup edit access.