We list virtual tech events that include community participation.
Please help out by contributing any events you know about.
We have always provided Open Data for you to reuse.
We also strongly prefer to import Open Data about events direct from the event organisers instead of making people input event data again.
If you are an event organiser, we'll help you publish Open Data for everyone to resue.
The calendar was started and ran by James Baster, who was at that point involved in the in-person Tech Meetup events.
After a similar calendar run by Tech Meetup was accidentally destroyed we set out to create a calendar that made the data more useful, could welcome more contributors and crucially, was less likely to be accidentally destroyed. It listed both in-person and virtual events.
Our initial version was a rough website launched using an Open Source wiki platform in a long weekend. However it was clear from the response to this that the community was interested. It quickly became clear that there were UI/UX challenges that our initial platform couldn't handle and as we grew over time, we moved to our own custom platform.
The calendar was run by Sheffield Digital.
The calendar has been returned to James Baster and his company Teacake Tech, and was relaunched as a place to list virtual events.
We crowd source our data in a git repository.
We use DataTig, an open source tool designed to make crowd sourcing data in git repositories easy.
Our website is a Django app that runs directly off the SQLite database that DataTig produces.
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