Event planning [edit]

A serious study of planning has begun at WiserEarth that takes a holistic approach in urban, suburban and rural planning initiatives within an event: namespace. The goal is to integrate as many tools and sources as possible into a toolkit for event planners - both amateur and professional. Everything in the toolkit is licensed Cc-by-sa-3.0 for non-commercial use and is free of charge. The WiserEarth API will hold the core programmatic schema for collecting and disseminating information about events. The generic toolkit package can be customized to work in a number of environments or host webspaces such as facebook, twitter and even mediawiki. Open collaboration platforms such as OpenKollab and GoogleWave can be implemented through "stubs" with simple Parser hooks and Variables:

This gives a user an easily fillable intake form that becomes a portable reference card for the event to be placed on a google calendar, a twit on twitter, post on facebook or even an article on wikipedia (if it's notable enough to get around the notability police there).

For an event, an important thing is where you are "hosting the event listing", which in my experience may be more than one tool because a group may have constituencies on several tools.  OK needs to provide a way to keep all of these coordinated as well.

Also, we need to add to the above.  We need fields to support processes of convergence for proposed events.  We would want to be able to support messages that propose a number of time options, specify preferences for and against time ranges.  Same thing for location.  We might want to create a wagn type for venues, and attach one of those which would include the location geocode as well as other useful information about the venues.

Likewise, one of the important aspects of OK meetups is their origins in networks of small organizations collaborating.  That means we need to have more than one "sponsoring organization" listed as well as a "HOST".  I would also maybe replace "TITLE" with "PURPOSE", which might eventually include a way to link to objects like intentions, goals, interests and other specific commitments to the ongoing collaborations that are active in these events and online supporting spaces.