Hi All,
This sprint our main focus has been improving the calendar importer and how
we display events.
- We’ve updated the UI to make it easier to understand what is happening
- We’ve changed the behaviour so that any event that can be imported, is
imported. This means that events with no addresses or broken addresses can
now be imported and will appear in your events calendar.
- Giving partners more control over which events are assigned to them.
Partners will now by default not have events assigned to them by other
calendars, but can opt in to connect to events if desired.
- Events that have URLs will now appear as online events with a link
- We’ve started recording the date source data changes from calendars we
import so organisers can spot if calendars are no longer actively
maintained.
You can read more here about how this will work.
<https://handbook.placecal.org/admin-handbook/how-to-add-a-calendar-to-place…>
We’ve also made lots of other small changes, including:
- Updating our privacy policy to properly reflect how we process and
store data, in line with GDPR
- Some improvements to the instance UIs, like defaulting to showing all
events or weekly events on sites with fewer events, and improving the
homepage for place based sites by tweaking the banner.
You can find the full list of changes over here on github:
<https://github.com/geeksforsocialchange/PlaceCal/releases/tag/v0.20.0>
https://github.com/geeksforsocialchange/PlaceCal/releases/tag/v0.23.0
Alfie, Ivan & Rosie
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Geeks For Social Change
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Hello all,
Version v0.22.0 has been released. Here are the exciting highlights of what
has gone up:
* online events are better indicated
* homepage hero image layout for better accessibility
* partners can have an instagram link
* better event listings for ical based calendars
* Improved calendar stability
* Admins
* improved form editing and updating usability
* live partner name checking
* show more accurate calendars on site calendars page
* improved text indicating what fields are needed on partner form for
addresses / service areas
* And many more platform code improvements
Many thanks,
- The PlaceCal Team
