Events are great because they bring people together.
In scenarios where there isn’t already a cohesive group, organizing an event has two risks:
- Will enough people sign up to make the planning effort worthwhile?
- Will the people who signed up actually show up?
A Kickstarter for events could solve these two problems.
First, the event would have some minimum number of signups required for the event to happen. It doesn’t happen if it doesn’t achieve critical mass.
Next, the organizer would track which signups actually show up at the event. This data could then contribute to the attendee’s reputation score on the platform, and calculate the likelihood of attendence.
Problem worth solving? It seems mundane but I keep wanting this for situations I come across in the real world.
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This is what we ended up using Kickstarter for when organizing the initial Support Driven conference. And they used it as well when organizing the first iteration of SDX. Definitely merit to the idea. 🙂