Adding a Category - Community Events

[bouteloua]

We talked about that a little when discussing whether to have a non-iNat related category (now Nature Talk)

@tiwane

I’m doing more research on ways we can surface local events for people so no one has to sift through a morass of events thousands of miles away if they don’t want to.

@bouteloua

Yeah, if https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/calendar
*had a map
*default view restricted to shorter-term actual “events” (e.g. a week in length or less)
*surface this page on more places throughout the website

I think it would be a lot more useful. I’d expect if we have a specific events category here on Discourse, it would be a really spammy feeling section.

@klodonnell

I’d love to see these improvements that @bouteloua suggested for the project calendar function of iNaturalist (adding maps, defaulting for shorter events).

I don’t think that page would be as good for meet-ups, so I think maybe a Meet Up category would be good. Topics organized by country? State/province? I see that it could be not as useful if it’s a large area covered.