Comment by johnnymellor
1 year ago
Many communities would like to have a page/ical that lists all the events going on in that community. But event organisers are often busy, and by the time they've posted on WhatsApp and Facebook and Meetup they won't necessarily bother to post here too, especially when there are multiple organisers within a community, and due to the chicken and egg problem of it only being worth posting here if all of the community's other events are also listed here.
What would help is if engaged community members can collaboratively list events that event organisers have posted elsewhere, so that community members can find all the community's events in one place (here) even if the event organisers don't bother to post them here themselves. This raises a few auth complications, e.g. if the event organiser wants to post their event ideally they'd be able to take ownership of the placeholder event uploaded by the community member. But if you can solve those, seeing all their events in one place might be a compelling reason for communities to organically switch over to your platform (at which point event organisers might well also follow).
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