@DianaThompson @111 (Damn, sometimes #depression rules my sayings. I could have also answered in the first place:)

Hey, nice you are interested in one of the coolest event plugins in the #WordPress space! We the people - working on #GatherPress, not as sponsored contributors, but as volunteers next to family and job, do 💯 appreciate that! It‘d be great if you find the time took test the plugin, add your thoughts to open discussions or even contribute some time coding or in the weekly meetings.

@DianaThompson @111 Thanks for both of your replies!
I want to clarify, that the #GatherPress itself is ongoing; it was just yesterday that the main maintainer opened a PR with 4000+ lines changed. Things are moving, but silently and with no more public involvement, other than Claude code.
I still believe that GatherPress is already a matured alternative to the most of event-calendar functionality in w.org/plugins, but its lack of visibility AND missing people contributing, is its real problem.

@111 @DianaThompson I can confirm #GatherPress is kind of stuck. But it’s far away from being an Automattic project.

I tried to contribute a lot to this project and idea, but for me personally it wasn’t a success story, even that I still try to flip the coin.

I wrote a lot of issues, created ideas, opened PRs, but I was not able (and willing) to join their weekly online meetings and so became ghosted more and more. I would have loved to contribute more.

@pintoch I needed some time to realise that your ideas and thoughts align perfectly, with what - I believe - not only #WordPress, but also #GatherPress needs, two projects, I tried to contribute to. With all the hassle, you described.

So here is my question (to everybody): How have you tried proposing a NEW governance model to your beloved #FOSS projects?

I really need to try.

@leobard @burners.at I had the same need and created an issue https://github.com/GatherPress/gatherpress/issues/682, would be cool if you would add your need here too, maybe we can get or create or solution for #GatherPress.

Until then I created myself a small helper plugin, which is referenced in the last comment. It isn’t perfect, but does the job for now.

J'animerai la table de l'Ă©quipe Community du projet open source #WordPress lors de la journĂ©e de contribution 5 mars, organisĂ©e par l'Association WordPress Francophone @wpfr le jour prĂ©cĂ©dent le #WordCamp Nice le 6 mars, oĂč je serai aussi bĂ©nĂ©vole.
Merci Ă  #Polylang qui sponsorise mon dĂ©placement, et Ă  #Themeisle qui sponsorise 5 heures/semaine de ma contribution Ă  WordPress. On parlera Community, Ă©vĂšnements, #GatherPress, WP Credits, Campus Connect (+chocolat suisse?đŸ˜‰đŸ«)
https://wpfr.net/journee-de-contribution-nice-2026-presentation-des-tables-episode-3/
Journée de Contribution Nice 2026 : tables Hébergement et Communauté

Deux nouvelles tables à découvrir pour la prochaine Journée de Contribution du 5 mars : Hébergement et Communauté. Rendez-vous à Nice !

WPFR

Congrats for the new website @leobard

I was wondering how you‘re doing the event slugs at @burners.at . Are you setting them manually?

I was just reminded about a #GatherPress idea about customising the event slug.

@pmmueller @bph

Some time ago I wanted to do the same for #GatherPress. But because the export-replace-paths-reimport steps seemed not very intuitive, I created a Playground to help.

https://github.com/carstingaxion/crud-the-docs-playground

Create a new repo from that template-repo, open the provided playground, create, edit and update your demodata. Save it using a special little button on the admin bar directly into a PR on your repo. Merge the PR.

You’ll get a ready prepared wordpress export stored in your repo.

GitHub - carstingaxion/crud-the-docs-playground: Create, read update, delete & save xml-exports using WordPress Playground and GitHub.

Create, read update, delete & save xml-exports using WordPress Playground and GitHub. - carstingaxion/crud-the-docs-playground

GitHub

@tchambers Things that also come 2026 thanks to #NLnet:

#WordPress users will be able to create polls for the Fediverse.

WordPress in combination with #GatherPress will offer federated RSVP for events.

Interoperability of Events will improve, e.g. Mobilizon will be able to receive events from other applications.

#Lauti, an event management tool for medium sized communities, will join the Fediverse.