March Meetup: Erm, when was that? Community calendaring...

We've now got five fantastic speakers from the sector of community event publishing coming along to the meetup now. Ranging from well-known platforms such as Eventbrite and Sched, through to emerging projects like n0tice and community focussed initaives locally and in the USA.

Please make sure you can join us...

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There are tons of events going on - how do we best publish, aggregate, filter and share them?

Google Calendar? Lanyrd? Facebook? N0tice? All/none of the above?

Our focus this month will be on effective ways to pool together information on events and activities relevant to our sector.

We've a range of speakers and projects to share - by all means get in contact if you have something to add...

Speakers:

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Marvin McTaw from Sched.org (http://sched.org/) will join us remotely to talk about their platform - in use across thousands of conferences and festivals. First highlighted by Wired magazine when in use at SXSW (http://austin2012.sched.org/), Sched.org's content management system (http://sched.org/tour) combines calendaring, social interaction and analytics to help eliminate event management headaches.

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Sarah Hartley from n0tice (http://n0tice.com/) will join us to talk about their hyperlocal notice boards. For a local example - check the Manchester Histories Festival (http://mcrhistfest.n0tice.com/)!

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Jon Udell will talk about the Elm City Project (http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/) - which is "rethinking the community calendar (http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity-project-faq/)". This projects brings together event information from a variety of sources and websites - enabling people to search, filter and subscribe. Using web standards is a core of the project - check out the calendar for Manchester (http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/ManchesterNH/html?count=1000) (in New Hampshire!)!

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Caroline Lai will also be on hand to talk through their use of Google Calendars in the Warrington Community Calendar (http://warringtoncommunitycalendar.co.uk/) project. The challenge here - how to aggregate events from multiple community groups - is something we are all familiar with....

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Katie McPhee will also join us. Katie is the UK Community Manager for Eventbrite (http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/) - a site many of us have used to book places on numerous events previously. If you hadn't heard, then Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable.

Update: John Popham (http://johnpopham.com/) will be along to live stream the event - details to follow