Demosphere software
Demosphere is a software for event calendar web sites. It is based on Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS).
Currently the following sites use the software:
- Paris
- Kinimatorama (Greece)
- Rennes (Western France)
- Toulouse (South-western France)
- Bruxelles (Belgium)
- Ariège (Southern France)
- Gironde (Gironde / Bordeaux : mid-western France)
- Tarn (South-western France)
- Carcassonne (South-western France)
- Nice (South eastern France)
- Alter49 (Angers : western France)
- Rouen (Northern France)
- Montpellier (Southern France)
- Marseille (Southern France)
- Correze (central France)
- Loire Atlantique (Western France)
- Gard (Southern France)
- Lille (Northern France)
A list of events from each calendar is available here.
Features & Description
Demosphere offers both a frontend (the publicly visible interface) and a large backend that administrators and moderators use to find and enter events.
Frontend: features a main calendar view, an interactive map of events, configurable widgets to display custom calendars on other websites , configurable RSS feeds, configurable event email subscriptions, custom selection of events, a user-friendly public event form, ...
Backend: Finding, selecting and entering events is a large amount of work. For example, the demosphere.eu site requires 3 hours of work every day. To make this work easier, we have developed several tools:
- a (simple) mail reader for automatically finding future dates and keywords in high volume mailing-lists.
- a feed aggregator that also finds future dates and keywords
- a "page watch" component that tells you when some web page has changed.
- a firefox extension that highlights future dates and keywords on web pages, helps copy/pasting from web pages, and helps entering map locations from google map (and others).
- a control panel to help manage your workflow
more details... | pdf presentation in french (with screenshots)
