Epic: provide one or multiple ways to add events to boudicca for event organizersx without website

[twatzl]

Problem Statement

Many, especially smaller event organizers or event organizers which only host a few events a year either

• don't have a website
• post event announcements on social media rather than on their website
• post events on their website in a format that cannot be read by boudicca (e.g. image or pdf or strangely formatted html)

Currently the events of those organizers are completely excluded. The hurdle for creating a website is quite big for event organizers. Thus a whole bunch of small organizers are currently excluded.

Requirements

• As Bill the Boudicca server operator I want to control who can publish events
• As Bob the Boudicca server operator I DO NOT want to have to manually manage events
• As Evan the event organizer I want to create information about my event
• As Ethan the event organizaer I might need to change information about my event
• As Bernhard the Boudicca server operator I might want to provide a structure to Eugen the even organizer, so that he fills out the information I need for my server.

Technical needs:

• It must be possible to create events
• It must also be possible to change or delete events (e.g. due to cancellation or more information gets available)
• It must be possible to add images. (png, jpg) for a preview, but also there might be additional info available
• PDF might be nice (sometimes there is information sheets with additional information)
• It would be cool if the input form is structured, so the data can be accordingly used.
• The server operator should be able to modify the structure before handing it over to event organizers.
• No data is stored on boudicca servers.

Potential Solutions

Google Calendar: create a shared google calendar and scrape that

Pros:

• easy to implement
• easy to use

Cons:

• no structure
• images?

Google Forms/Sheets?

GitHub Pages + Github repo: Create a form as github pages

Basically create a github page with a form and on each form submit a github action is triggered that updates a repo and writes the info to it.