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A collaborative calendar effort to avoid events for common public of common interest to be scheduled to the same day.

Calendar for ecosystems

A collaborative calendar effort to avoid events for public of common interest to be scheduled for the same day and time.

The idea came out as a solution for Brasilia's (Brazil) startup ecosystem's problem of constant event overlay. Even though it's a small scene, sometimes attendees and organizers don't know about all the events.

Tech ideas

Almost nothing defined yet, not even if it will be just one or two repositories.

  • A simple RESTFul API specification (Swagger 2)
  • The API server (PHP? NodeJS?)
  • A web app, a.k.a. the landing page (Angular?)
  • Mobile app (for now maybe we just need a reliable calendar syncing and some responsiveness)

Brainstorming features

  • Anyone can add events
  • Taggable events
  • Moderated by moderators or popular verified votes
  • Import/connect to:
    • Facebook events
    • Meetup.com events
    • Meetup.com groups
    • Google Calendar
  • Date/time polls (eg.: Doodle, UpTo)
  • Export/sync back to:
    • CalDAV
    • Exchange ActiveSync
    • iCalendar

Dream features a.k.a. automagics

  • Clone/create/update the event on Meetup and Facebook via API
  • Create event's banners and a mini media kit
  • Connect to social media and apps, like WhatsApp, and shares the events

To-do

  • A cool project name (just "calendar" is too lame, as a threat it will be "caleco" if nothing better comes out)
  • Host (server) partner to the main deploy
  • Choosing initial tech stuff
  • Writing (steal) some collaboration guidelines and best practices

Benchmarking