CommunityCalendars.org
Using a community calendar is a way to put our many small towns on the map. It is a way to promote your local Fall fair or bring in tourists to sample your local cuisine. Promote your organic farmers, or maybe promote the local bands.
This community Calendar is created for you-by-you; you create and keep track of the content we provide the shell and basic training.
Background
The community calendar is a real-time, user friendly events calendar system for the arts and culture community in the greater Peterborough area.
Peterborough has a large, vibrant and highly creative artistic community. The diversity of the organizations has meant that the scheduling and marketing of events was decentralized and fractured. Tekdesk agreed to collect, compile, market and promote all the activities taking place within the community. Providing a centralized site for residents and visitors alike to find out what events are scheduled and where they are located.
With funding from the Ministry of Culture's 2007 Library Strategic Development Fund, Tekdesk and Peterborough Public Library has developed and implemented an open source calendar for the community to schedule, showcase and map community and cultural events.
The Goal
The goal of our project was to design a complete cultural calendar and mapping solution for Peterborough that could be replicated in libraries across the province.
This calendar is capable of managing and storing event information in such a way that it can easily be shared with different users. Making it attractive to a range of users, from those who currently have a web-based calendar to "low-level" calendar owners who currently use a simple static list of events for their calendar, or users who may not have a website. An added requirement was functionality for organizations that already maintain a web-based calendar of events and want to retain control of their event information. The challenge for them is having the ability to maintain their own repository of information while being, be able to send or receive information from the Community Calendar (data mining).
To check out the Peterborough Community Calendar go to http://www.communitycalendars.org
If your library or town would like more information or your own community calendar please contact us at:info@tekdesk.org
Phone: (705)760-9198
Address Tekdesk, 345 Aylmer St. N. Peterborough, ON K9H 3V7
