🚨Experimental Fediverse Event Software🚨

This is experimental software from Darius Kazemi.

The Fediverse needs an event organizing system, so I've taken the incredibly lovely open source event organizing software gath.io and added my lightweight ActivityPub server to the mix.

I fully expect this to break, and I would love early testers. I'm especially interested to know how this interacts with people who aren't on Mastodon.

Directions

Hit the green New Event button and put in your event details. Your event will have a nice looking home page and it will also have an ActivityPub-compatible account and profile. It will give you the account handle for the event, which will look something like @aB3_2HI@{{domain}} and can be shared with people on the Fediverse who want to follow your event.

When a person follows your event, they'll follow a feed that updates whenever you update event details. After a person follows, this software will DM the person a poll (aka an ActivityPub "Question") where, at least in Mastodon, they can vote Yes/No/Maybe. If they vote Yes, then they will be registered as an attendee on your page. No and Maybe don't do anything yet.

Also when you update your event (changing any of the fields), you send a DM notification to every user who is registered as attending.

Further info

I'll publish the source code soon, but it's in crummy and undocumented shape right now and I'd rather see it perform "in the wild" before I do an official release.

If you'd like to chat with me about this software, I can be reached at @darius@friend.camp.

What follows is the documentation from gath.io.

You don't need to sign up for an account - we just use your email to send you a secret link you can use to edit or delete your event. Send all your guests the public link, and all your co-hosts the editing link. A week after the event finishes, it's deleted from our servers for ever, and your email goes with it.

Also, we don't show you ads, don't sell your data, and never send you unnecessary emails.

But remember: all our events are visible to anyone who knows the link, so probably don't use gathio to plot your surprise birthday party or revolution. Or whatever, you do you.