EventNett is an events calendar modeled after the openness of Wikipedia. Anyone can add new events or edit existing events without having to log in or provide any personal information. There are no advertisements so you don't have to click through multiple pages or scroll past banner ads in order to view event information. More importantly, there is no central control. A single company or individual doesn't decide what gets listed or what gets prominent placement. Shows at your community theater or drink specials at your neighborhood's corner bar are as important as stadium concerts or wine tastings--all based on what you want to see.

The intention behind EventNett is to allow you to quickly find what you're interested in or to add what you think others might like. EventNett brings events to you with as little intervention as possible.

You can browse events from either the Map, Calendar, Timeline, or List tabs. Events in those views are filtered with the criteria you provide in the filter to the left.

The buttons in the upper right allow you to add an event or location (venue). You add an event by first entering a name and description, then entering the scheduled times for that event, and then finally specifying an existing or new location. Events and locations can be tagged with up to 20 keywords each.

You can create an account or log in to your existing account by clicking login at the upper right. Creating an account will allow you to have a default filter area (based on your city, state and zip) and a default time zone. An account is not required to use EventNett. All of the account settings can be configured without creating an account, but they must be re-entered for each session. All information is private and will never be provided to third parties.

The Admin view provides queries that help maintain the information in EventNett. The Recently Edited list within the Admin view shows events edited in the last week. The Deleted list shows events marked for deletion (pending permanent deletion). The Expired list shows events that are no longer scheduled (also pending permanent deletion). Deleted and Expired events get permanently deleted after a month. Deleted events can be restored prior to permanent deletion. Similarly, expired events can be edited to update their schedules and remove them from the expired list.

EventNett will only be useful with increased content and features. Contact me here with your requests, complaints, or support. If EventNett doesn't fit your needs, you may want to try one of these similar (but completely unafilliated) sites:

• Upcoming.org
• Eventful

Enjoy!

EventNett is written with Java EE 5 using a MySQL 4.1 database. The following libraries are also used:

• DHTML Calendar Widget (version 1.0) is used for selecting dates when creating a new event
• Google Maps API is used for all inline maps
• JDOM (version 1.0) is required to support ROME
• ROME: RSS and Atom Utilities for Java (version 0.9) is used to provide the RSS feeds