Feature idea: Event Submission

[mateoclarke]

user story
As a community organizer or community based organization, I want to submit events I'm (co)hosting to a community event registry so that event planning can be better coordinate between peer organizations.

🐍 Check out Oakland's census events/calendar app and evaluate if it could be repurposed for Greater Austin. (some python experience recommended) https://github.com/openoakland/dos-census-events

Or maybe we could do something more simple and just use a Google Form and pull data from a Sheet into Gatsby:
https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-google-sheets/

Whatever solution should support a calendar UI and should collect location data (address and/or coords) for an event.

[jarrmill]

@mateoclarke and all, I checked out the feasibility of using Google Form / Sheets for event submission and approval, and it is very easy to implement. You can see a proof of concept on this on this branch.

The whole endeavor didn't take long at all. I followed this tutorial, and Gatsby has a great follow up tutorial here. That being said, I only did the first tutorial to get it working with Javascript.

• Google Form Example

• Google Sheet Example

If you want to try it out, let me know and I can share my credentials. Also, if there are any questions or if I can help any further, lmk. Cheers!

[mateoclarke]

Nice, thanks for setting up this example @jarrmill. I'll go ahead and work from your branch and switch out credentials etc.