In the early days of my engagement with the open source tech communities, one of the clear issues was the plethora of event scheduling and management tools that everyone used to organize events. To get a firm handle on what was happening on any given day, you had to check a whole bunch of different sites — including individual organization blogs. That was the pain point that resulted in the development of an open source project that became Calagator.
And while Calagator still functions to some extent, it’s been running in zombie mode for quite a while. So other folks have started to think about how to take a fresh approach to solving that pain point with more modern code. Like the PDX Tech Calendar open source project.
As maintainer Mark Kleinhaus shared on Portland Startups Slack:
This is my OSS version of the much-loved Calagator tool. It’s not a fork but I think of it as more of a reboot – a new rails project from the ground up. For those new to the pdxstartup community, Calagator (https://calagator.org/) is a community maintained crowdsourced event calendar platform. It’s lost an active maintainers group over the last year or two (I believe) so much needed bug fixes and features have gone stale. I’m proposing this new project as an actively maintained community calendar and would welcome any feedback or contributors I can get. It’s a very bare bones MVP right now and I plan to keep adding more core features that the community loves.
If you’re interested in test driving it, visit PDX Tech Calendar. If you’d like to take a more active role in the development and maintenance of the project, please visit the Github repository.
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