How can our event be published in the calendar?

Our Calendar publishes three kinds of events:

• Collaborative events of several CMS communities (e. g. Open Web Lounge)
• Dedicated FOSS CMS community events (e. g. Drupal Developer Days)
• Conferences on free and open source software or on IT topics in general (e. g. FrOSCon)

Add the event yourself

1. If you do not have an account yet, please register first.
2. Try and find the event title in our Event catalogue and click the teaser. Click the button "Add date". In case there is no such general event description yes, add one. It should describe the event in general, suitable to re-use for a follow-up date. This is to say: avoid adding the year or the motto of this year's event. Click "Save and add a date".
3. Enter the date.
4. If it is not an online event, link the location. When the name of the location does not appear in the autocomplete field, add a new location (in a separate browser tab). Make sure the map marker is on an appropriate position. Otherwise you can manually enter the geo coordinates (e. g. to indicate a different entry on a fair ground).
5. Try autocomplete to find the organizer. In case you get no results, add an organizer profile. No worries when you do not belong to the organizing organization, you can mark this profile "claimable". However, please enter contact data and legal information anyways.
6. Date-specific information like this year's motto can be entered in the tab Advanced > Additional information. This will be displayed above the general event description.

Review workflow

When you are recently registered you will not be able to publish all the beforementioned content (profile, location, event/date). We have an approval workflow. The editors will receive a notification and publish as soon as possible.

Make sure to change the dropdown if it shows "Draft" in the highlighted box on the preview page.

After contributing several event dates without complaints you are eligible of receiving permissions to directly publish further content. If that's still not the case, please contact the editorial team.