{"items": [{"author": "Peter", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=353954751308244", "anchor": "fb-353954751308244", "service": "fb", "text": "I think the custom fields concept is really critical to this working.  For contras you care about bands, callers and special notes like \"challenging\" or \"prom\".  Other events would have completely different ones.", "timestamp": "1333557948"}, {"author": "Peter", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=353956127974773", "anchor": "fb-353956127974773", "service": "fb", "text": "What about closely related, but not identical communities such as contra dancing and English dancing, or contra dances and contra dance music jams. The overall mechanism would need a way to conveniently tie them together.", "timestamp": "1333558090"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=353958744641178", "anchor": "fb-353958744641178", "service": "fb", "text": "@Peter: Custom fields are nice, but I'm not sure this even needs to go far enough to have records for individual dates.  Just an entry saying that BIDA is 1st and 3rd Sundays at the Masonic Hall in Cambridge would be most of the value.", "timestamp": "1333558441"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=353959647974421", "anchor": "fb-353959647974421", "service": "fb", "text": "@Peter: Dealing with related communities the way Reddit does could be enough.  Each community just links to related ones.", "timestamp": "1333558533"}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118018675719227706259", "anchor": "gp-1333631639592", "service": "gp", "text": "Isn't this what \nhttp://meetup.com\n is for?", "timestamp": 1333631639}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1333635960105", "service": "gp", "text": "I don't want to create a separate meetup group for each contra dance: meetups are heavyweight.  Instead I just want to create the index where I can link to each existing contra dance, whether that dance uses a web page, a meetup group, or whatever.", "timestamp": 1333635960}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118018675719227706259", "anchor": "gp-1333636066108", "service": "gp", "text": "Sounds like a good weekend Rails project for someone. Not me.", "timestamp": 1333636066}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=354536991250020", "anchor": "fb-354536991250020", "service": "fb", "text": "If an activity rises to the level of popularity and ubiquity of contra dance, I don't feel that a site like Dance Gypsy is at all silly.<br><br>It seems to me that the 'verse of the internet consists of content, guideposts, and search engines.  What you're proposing feels to me like another layer of guideposts that Google renders redundant.<br><br>FWIW, contradancelinks.com is a pretty good complement to Dance Gypsy.  Also, for me the $30 annual donation to Dance Gypsy affords full access to it's useful database.  And that donations pales in comparison to how much money I spend annually traveling to, and getting in to contradances.", "timestamp": "1333652152"}, {"author": "Jim", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/353943881309331?comment_id=354735057896880", "anchor": "fb-354735057896880", "service": "fb", "text": "O Brave New World", "timestamp": "1333678829"}]}