Display upcoming events at your meetup?

This blog post is about an older version of Open Tech Calendar, which was relaunched in 2025. Check out the new version!

Last night at TechMeetup Edinburgh, we tried putting up something on the projector at the start and during the intros. We put up a rotating screen that displayed all the upcoming events in the city for the next 40 days, cycling through each event every 15 seconds.

displayboard

We were hoping this would let people see what was coming up in their local community in an easy way. We'll continue to tweak the display to show information better, but were you at Edinburgh TechMeetup last night? What did you think?

Here's the links to see for yourself or use at your meetup:

Edinburgh: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/displayboard/cycledetails/run/?eventArea0=62&eventGroup0=&eventVenue0=&daysInAdvance=40&refreshInSeconds=15
Glasgow: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/displayboard/cycledetails/run/?eventArea0=65&eventGroup0=&eventVenue0=&daysInAdvance=40&refreshInSeconds=15
Sheffield: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/displayboard/cycledetails/run/?eventArea0=40&eventGroup0=&eventVenue0=&daysInAdvance=40&refreshInSeconds=15

Our older display board is also still available:

displayboard

Comments welcome, as always! Or if you want to use one of these boards, just let us know which options you want and we'll send you the URL.

Published: 2016-03-10