Hi!
I’m Kunal Bhalla — I’ve just completed my third year as a Civil Engineering BTech. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi — currently in Mumbai, India (UTC+5.30). Possibly useful links: the blog for EventPress (the GSoC project), the GSoC Proposal and my personal blog.
The idea for an events plugin for WordPress came about from my working on many event-related websites for college (festivals, etc.): I wanted to be able to create a site around an event easily and quickly and then just skin it for each event as required. With a bit of work and loads of feedback, this idea became my GSoC proposal:
An events plugin for WordPress and BuddyPress. Event functionality will be built around the new Custom Post type — for BuddyPress sites, the events will be completely integrated with the Social layer provided (activity streams, groups, forums, etc.).
I’ll be posting I’ve posted a revised scope as a page on this blog soon.
Justin Shreve 5:42 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink |
Hi Kunal,
I just read through the proposal. This project looks extremely cool and should also be extremely useful for WordCamp like sites. I work at a department at my University and we hold a lot of events. I can see a plugin like this being used for some of our bigger ones.
I definitely think it would be cool to integrate custom header/custom background like functionality that themes like twentyten are using. By that I mean make it easy for people to update the look of their event site without having to dive into the code. This doesn’t have to be anything super advanced… Maybe just integrating the custom header, background features and perhaps some way to change some colors. Just a thought. It could be a nice little bonus.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with for the project overall. Good luck!