Add a way to create events, with date and location

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I think topics of type Event can be in Talkyard core. And listing all topics of type Event, ... maybe not in a calendar (too complicated) but in a by-date topic list, like Meetup .com does.

That would be already a great step, and I could eventually take care of adding it to some calendar if I need it, and if there are ways to access the database.

Initially using tags for location sounds like a good idea. Some time later, also including a GPS coordinate, yes.

Great!

1. Plugins. Not yet any way to write plugins. I do want to add a plugin system.

Ok nice, let me know when it's implemented!

If you have ideas about how the UI for this could look, it'd be interesting :- ) Maybe a 2 step wizard? Title and text, followed by date and location? Or adding a date button at the end of the Title input field in the editor?

Oh, it is possible to create a 2 steps wizard? Nice! Well, if it were possible to open a full page when creating a new Event instead of just opening a small box below the screen (which is nice for answers, but less nice for full topics), I'd prefer to put everything on the same page (topic, date, location/tags... actually, I would love to be able to add tags directly when I'm writing a new Question/Problem/Idea/..., it's not very natural to add tags via Change... after writing the question, but it's another topic). Otherwise, if we need to stick with a small window at the bottom of the screen, a two step wizard is also nice (maybe harder to code?). But for me UI is not the most important thing, anything easy to create/maintain is good for me ;-)

Probably both. There's the per topic Change ... button which could have entries "Change location" and "Change date".

Both would be great, I thing the Change button to change location and date is perfect.

1. The features you mention (dates, locations, list all upcoming events by date) — I think that makes sense directly in Talkyard. Things like showing a calendar of all events — that'd probably not be directly in Talkyard though. (Too many different ways to render a calendar, I'm thinking. But having a start and end date — that's simpler.)

What are your thoughts about all this?

That would already be awesome!

I'm just thinking, would it also be possible to add an option for regular events? Like a meeting that occurs every Friday from 10am to 12am? Not all meetings are "one go".

What is your community going to be about? What type of events? If I may ask.

So I'd like to create a website to federate people around ecology in France. They could ask on this website questions, like "What are the best ways to collect tomatoes seeds?", or "I'm a Mayer, what should I do if I want to share cars to other people in the village?". They also could create punctual events, like "Let's help the Mayer to create a bike path in town XXX on 9 sept 2019!". I also want to create channels, so that they can talk together in real time. And finally, I'd like to allow them to create "Projects", that would allow them to call for people with some skills/materials. Like "I need somebody that knows how to repair bikes, somebody that knows how to create a website, and somebody that knows how to create Associations, all of them living in Lyon", and the people living in Lyon would automatically get notified if they have the required skills. Talkyard implements already most of what I need, except events and skill-requirement for now, but it's already great. For the last thing I need (notification skills), I was thinking to use tags as well, like skill-bike-fixer, skill-web-developper, skill-jurist, skill-create-associations, location-lyon, location-rhone, and allow the user to configure more complex notifications (for now they are only notified when a message is posted in a given category, but it's not possible to configure more complex notifications, like "Notify me when the tag skill-web-developper is posted", or "Notify me when the tag skill-bike-fixer is posted together with location-lyon"... But I'll add this Idea later on ;-)

Anyway, thanks for the great job, I hope Events will appear soon! Btw, do you accept external help/PR on github (I may want to help if I have some free time later)? And do you have a place for donation?

PS: it has nothing to do with events, but do you have a nice way to quote a full message? for now I copy paste your message, but it does not include your formatting.