Badges / record of real life meeting attendance

[ky_metro (Chris Saenz)]

Why not invite them directly to your Discourse, including a special group membership in the invitation?

https://meta.discourse.org/my/invited/

To make sure they attended, collect the email addresses as they come in the door.

Once they’re in a group, assign a badge to all members of the group, like this:

Grant a badge for all members of a group

I just created a badge for all the awesome plugin authors. Creating a badge targeting a group is quite easy, just type this into the SQL box: select user_id, created_at granted_at, NULL post_id from group_users where group_id = ( select g.id from groups g where g.name = 'GROUP_NAME_IN_LOWER_HERE' ) I will add a trigger for this at some point so granting is faster, in the mean time just go to /sidekiq/scheduler and kick off the badge job to rush it. See Triggered custom badge queries for mo…