We define PlaceCal as:

A co-constituted combination of software and training. These two elements work together to support a neighbourhood-level community calendar. It’s aimed directly at neighbourhood groups and the institutions who want to work better with them.

PlaceCal Program Diagram

PlaceCal Program Diagram

The PlaceCal platform and program is made up of a number of different elements, which we’ll go into now.

The technical side of PlaceCal

The PlaceCal software is the technical stack and infrastructure of our core program. PlaceCal imports and connects information from neighbourhood institutions and organisations who have signed up to be part of our program. As long as partners input their data regularly, PlaceCal will import, aggregate and publish on to the PlaceCal.org website automatically.

PlaceCal technological infrastructure

PlaceCal technological infrastructure

PlaceCal technological infrastructure

PlaceCal brings together existing calendar tools and IT infrastructure – which are tools that organisations are already using to organise themselves. This process drastically reduces the current manual workload of keeping event information updated and reliable, as well as synced across multiple partners.

What does PlaceCal look like?

At its most basic, PlaceCal is a shared community calendar. It’s a community of people working together to share information about their events. This community looks like this:

PlaceCal seven core roles

PlaceCal seven core roles

These PlaceCal roles are clearly defined and each type of person uses our calendar in a different way: