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Meeting Notes 2014.09.23
The spreadsheet of all / 30 known Greenville area tech organizations is complete and ready for a RESTful API. Thanks go to Jim Ciallella, Wryen Meek, Phil Yanov, Paul Waters, and Ryan Heafy for helping pull the spreadsheet together.
Adam suggested using the organization API data to build a tool to connect organizations looking for sponsorship (beer, coffee, pizza, etc) with organizations looking to sponsor, like Robert Half.
We discussed technology for implementing a REST API for organizations and then events.
The thought is to use Drupal 7 to store the data and to manage the REST API methods and authentication. Drupal’s existing admin interfaces, content management functionality, and modules should make for a much easier setup then building all of this from scratch.
The expectation is that not everything will be limited to PHP or Drupal know-how. Rather, since the REST API acts as a common interface, it is expected that code for integrating with Meetup or Facebook event APIs, parsing iCal feeds, screenscraping, or building tools off the API data can be done in any language.
For instance, someone could put together a Rails app to integrate to with Meetup.com and that application would be authenticated and authorized to do GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE commands for the event data.
Jim Ciallella is taking the lead development role. Jim will reach out to fellow Drupal and PHP folks for thoughts on Drupal modules and best practices on the REST side.