avanade / techcommunitycalendar

The power behind TechCommunityCalendar.com, a roundup of events including hackathons, meetups and conferences, from around the world.

Tech Community Calendar

The Tech Community Calendar is THE place to check for upcoming events in the tech community and lists conferences, hackathons and meetups happening around the world and when live will exist at www.TechCommunityCalendar.com.

Eventually we want the site to be managed by the tech community itself so that it is ran by the community, for the commmunity.

Overview

The Tech Community Calendar will show events of interest to the tech community from around the world and will be filterable by event type and country.

Licensing

Tech Community Calendar is available under the MIT Licence.

Documentation

The docs folder contains more detailed documentation, along with setup instructions.

Contact

Feel free to raise an issue on GitHub, or see our security disclosure policy.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See information on contributing, as well as our code of conduct.

If you're happy to follow these guidelines, then check out the getting started guide.

Who is Avanade?

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem, and the power behind the Accenture Microsoft Business Group.

techcommunitycalendar's Issues

Not showing events in the evening when viewed on the day

For example, an event for the evening 2nd Feb, isn't showing on the 2nd February

[feature]Allow items to be tagged with categories for later search and retrieval

For example..

https://bootstrap-tagsinput.github.io/bootstrap-tagsinput/examples/

Alter image used when sharing to use better dimensions

Currently, when sharing the TCC link on Twitter, the image used is not idea for sharing.. the proportions seem wrong.
Determine the correct proportions / ratio for sharing images and produce a version in those dimensions.

SEO Considerations

• Meta tags
• OpenGraph tags
• Share tags
• Headings
• Titles
• Canonical links

SEO checking tool

Get and display tech events by year

[feature]Add Organiser (Group) Name

Some organisers such as meetup groups organise multiple meetups.
It would be nice to say which events were organised by which groups

Add today and this week labels?

Add Google Analytics

Add Google Analytics tracking code.
Potentially make sure is tracked in Google and Bing Webmaster tools

Events not showing for previous months

Recent events are currently only shown if < 30 days old.

Needs to show all events for that month, if in the past.

Add icons for event types

Something like..

• Call for speakers 📣
• Hackathon 👩‍💻
• Conference 🧠
• Website 💻

Create form to allow people to contribute events

Should create a pull request containing the additional event, which once approved will add it to the list of events.

[feature]Add share buttons

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to add some buttons to share in the different social networks.

Describe the solution you'd like

We could consider the same approach as that taken on https://codereviewchecklist.com/

Describe alternatives you've considered

We have made a proposal, using another project as an example, but we could divide into two tasks, a UX part and the link development part. So if you want to help you can choose between development or No-Code tasks.

Provide as web calendar format?

Change Tech Community Calendar header image to feature calendar iconography theme

[feature]Submitted By (Name) field on Add event form

Allow people to provide their name (optionally) to help identify who has submitted the event

[feature]Update build pipeline to use staging/deployment slots

Currently no staging slots are used

[feature]Add autogenerated sitemap

Submit to Google Webmaster tools

Add Application Insights

[feature]Supporting dark mode

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We would like to develop a Dark mode for the calendar.✨✨

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to use the same approach as taken on https://codereviewchecklist.com/

Describe alternatives you've considered

In addition to dark mode, we could consider high contrast modes to improve accessibility.

Add "Supported by Avanade" messaging

[feature]Store and present datetime with timezones

At the moment, all times are relative to the events "location".

We need to start storing the timezone along with the datetime.

Check responsiveness design on mobile devices

Security Policy violation Outside Collaborators

This issue was automatically created by Allstar.

Security Policy Violation
Found 1 outside collaborators with admin access.
This policy requires users with this access to be members of the organisation. That way you can easily audit who has access to your repo, and if an account is compromised it can quickly be denied access to organization resources. To fix this you should either remove the user from repository-based access, or add them to the organization.

• Remove the user from the repository-based access. From the main page of the repository, go to Settings -> Manage Access.
  (For more information, see https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/removing-a-collaborator-from-a-personal-repository)

OR

• Invite the user to join your organisation. Click your profile photo and choose “Your Organization” → choose the org name → “People” → “Invite Member.” (For more information, see https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-membership-in-your-organization/inviting-users-to-join-your-organization)

If you don't see the Settings tab you probably don't have administrative access. Reach out to the administrators of the organisation to fix this issue.

OR

• Exempt the user by adding an exemption to your organization-level Outside Collaborators configuration file.

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Add server side caching of events

The app shouldn't need to read the csv file each time

Add GitHub action to parse and check TechEvents.csv

[feature]Add About page

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We would like to add an about page, explaining the intention of the project.

Describe the solution you'd like

The ideal would be to add one more page, as is the map, but talking about the project.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We can consider two tasks, a design task and a development task.

[bug] The solution cannot be debugged without ConnectionString parameter

Describe the bug

The solution should show something without ConnectionStringParameter and work over the views.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1- Use an IDE vss/vscode
2-Run It

3-Error

Expected behavior
The solution should work without the db connection.

Screenshots

Web browser :

Web browser: Firefox
Web browser Version:Dont apply

Additional context

It is simply so that people who want to contribute do not have any problem.

Link in README not working

@leeenglestone The link to the Calendar is pointing to http://www.techcommunitycalendar.com/ instead of https://techcommunitycalendar.com/ (or is not correctly being redirected)

Add robots.txt file

Add country flag icons to event listings?

Make url generation lowercase and have trailing slash by default

Turn these settings on in MVC (easy)

Make Add Event link more prominent

Probably with a green circle containing a white plus or similar

[Bug]Events are not correctly aggregated by country

On a country page and on the map page, not all events are listed.

For example for France (https://techcommunitycalendar.com/country/france/), only Cloud Alpes is listed in upcoming events and there is no recents events. However, when we go to the city Paris in France (https://techcommunitycalendar.com/city/paris), there are 3 recent events listed, that should also be listed in France page. And when we go in Tech events in September (https://techcommunitycalendar.com/9/2023/) we can see there are different other upcoming events in France. These events are not listed in the Map page as well.

Add view by country functionality

Add view by event type functionality

Need to be able to view all "Hackathons" or all "Conferences" or all "Meetups" etc

[feature]Add Open Source messaging and page showing outstanding issues

Update DNS for go-live

Update DNS so that www.TechCommunityCalendar.com CNAME goes to TechCommunityCalendar.azurewebsites.net etc

Switch Duration and EndDate field logic..

Currently each Event has a StartDate and Duration field to capture data.. with the EndDate being calculated on the fly from those..

Instead, I want to use StartDate and EndDate as fields to capture data with Duration being calculated from those.

[bug/doc] Error on the README.md file

Describe the bug

The readme file shield images dont show de stars, issues properly.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to (https://github.com/Avanade/TechCommunityCalendar)

2. Look at the shields
   

3. Check issues and stars.
   

4. See error

Expected behavior
Stars and issues numbers must match.

Screenshots
Added in the steps

Web browser :

• Web browser: Firefox
• Web browser Version:Dont apply

Additional context

Add save to calendar

Re-write as .NET 5 web app

Is currently .NET Core 3.1

Chrome Lighthouse Audit

Run and apply Chrome lighthouse recommendations including best practices/performance/accessibility etc

[feature]Record and display optional Twitter handle for event

• Update new event form
• Add validation
• Display in list