Can we host events in discourse?

[Esha]

Does Discourse allow to host webinars?

[merefield (Robert)]

Discourse Zoom Plugin

Summary Discourse Zoom empowers Discourse administrators and users with a paid Zoom subscription to schedule, manage, and participate in Zoom webinars directly from their Discourse platform. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-zoom Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Overview This plugin integrates Zoom webinars into a Discourse instance. Zoom webinars can be associated with topics, Discourse use…

BigBlueButton video conference

This plugin integrates a Discourse instance with BigBlueButton, an open source video conferencing tool designed for online learning. You will need to have a server running an instance of BBB to use this, see http://docs.bigbluebutton.org for more details. Compared to Zoom, Jitsi and Whereby, BigBlueButton has better browser support, in my tests it worked right away on all modern browsers, including Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android. Screenshots [image] [image] To add a video conference t…

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Create Events

Events are a feature of the Calendar (and Event) plugin. You can find more detail about how to enable them as well as their related settings in: Official Discourse Calendar (and Event) Plugin Keeping local dates enabled is also highly recommended when using this feature Creating an Event An Event can be created from the toolbar gear icon menu when you’re creating a new topic (or editing the first post of a topic): [create an event] Once created, the event will…

[Esha]

Thanks @merefield it definitely helps!

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

I create a topic where I list our next events, then a create a topic for each event where I write

• topic
• summary
• name of the speakers
• info about the meeting
• a poll where I ask for participation, so I know who is going to attend
• the .ics to save it on their calendar
• the link for zoom

I organized at least 40 meetings over the last two years.
At the end of the meeting I replace the zoom link with the youtube video and I use the post to follow up with the discussions. Speaker generally answers additional questions that come in the following days…

I know It’s in Italian but I hope that the “template” is clear enough.

[Esha]

Thank you for your help here. This looks good. We an have all the details on one page and can later on update Zoom/Event link with the exact video recording link. Really appreciate that.

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

Yes, it’s a bit homemade but it works like a charme