Events category is currently broken

Issues with the Pavilion Events plugin have caused us to take the Events page offline.

The Events page on our Forum should be a stable and useful resource for Calgarians to find information about events happening in their city.

Other Events integrations have been happening recently to make the Discord server a great place for this, built on our organization’s Google Calendar.

I think we’d be happy to collaborate with other organizations to host their events on our Google Calendar, such that they can appear on our Discord, and other platforms such as the Forum, or wherever iCal is supported.

We should have a conversation and plan to get this part of our platform back up and running. What’s the best way to do this?

Pavilion Events

Pros:

  • Fabulous calendar integration capabilities
  • Semi-active development & support team
  • Project is funded
  • Explicit Discourse Wizard integration (simpler event creation dialogue)

Cons:

  • Extremely buggy in our experience (should count for 2 cons)
  • Less, but still confusing “Create Event” dialogue

Discourse Calendar and Event

Pros:

  • Basically no bugs!
  • Colour-coding by tag is encouraged
  • May support Discourse Wizard for event creation

Cons:

  • Development is less active
  • No calendar integration features
  • Confusing “Create Event” dialogue

Other Solution

Ideas:

  • A Google Calendar widget?
  • Discourse Calendar with our own integration script?