OpenStreetMap Calendar(osmcal.org)
osmcal.org
OpenStreetMap Calendar
https://osmcal.org/
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Turns out there's a meetup near me in just a couple days, I might go! Also I love that they call their meetups "mappy hours"
let's make a list of all the lists, here the ones i know:
* https://github.com/Everything-Open-Source/open-source-events * https://foss.events
* https://github.com/Everything-Open-Source/open-source-events * https://foss.events
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During my time on Apple Maps we were encouraged to attend OSM's Mappy Hours. It was a great experience to see just how much manual effort still goes into creating maps.
Ha, not sure why it got submitted here now, but since I wrote the software, I'll provide some background:
A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wiki with events, but discovery was poor and nobody really wanted to write wiki table syntax _shudder_ to add events. So people either didn't do it or only advertised their events in their group chats or Facebook groups.
Thus I started writing some code, and now people can add an event by just logging in with their OpenStreetMap account and filling out a small form. We still display our events in a Wiki by using the API and a small Mediawiki plugin to maintain human compatibility for people who are used to getting events from the wiki. There are also RSS feeds, iCalendar subscriptions and event file downloads, so that everybody can subscribe to events in their preferred form.
It's a small project that I've been running for a couple years and it's really rewarding to see people using it every day.
A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wiki with events, but discovery was poor and nobody really wanted to write wiki table syntax _shudder_ to add events. So people either didn't do it or only advertised their events in their group chats or Facebook groups.
Thus I started writing some code, and now people can add an event by just logging in with their OpenStreetMap account and filling out a small form. We still display our events in a Wiki by using the API and a small Mediawiki plugin to maintain human compatibility for people who are used to getting events from the wiki. There are also RSS feeds, iCalendar subscriptions and event file downloads, so that everybody can subscribe to events in their preferred form.
It's a small project that I've been running for a couple years and it's really rewarding to see people using it every day.
This is great, I was thinking of creating something similar for a map-based events project. Is there an API to create events? From what I saw you can only read/list events? If possible, I'd like to incorporate this into my app, when a venue/organiser creates an event, for it to also go to OpenStreetMap Calendar.
Could it be that you just need a mobilizon (https://joinmobilizon.org/) instance?
Fifteen years ago, in Spain, there was a calendar with events about free software, it named Libro Blanco. It was great.
Does OsmAND show these events in my area when I open the map? I would greatly increase participation.
Some other event sites for open source events are on:
https://wiki.debian.org/SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars
https://wiki.debian.org/SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars