A community-driven, open source calendar for queer events in, for the moment, Amsterdam.
Queer Calendar is a grassroots initiative to centralize LGBTQIA+ event listings in one inclusive, accessible and privacy friendly web calendar. Whether you're looking for the next party, a workshop, or an activist meetup — this project aims to make it easy to stay connected without relying on Big Tech & Social media.
👉 Live site: queer-kalendar.nl
- 📅 Overview of upcoming events
- 🌙 Dark mode
- 🌐 Multilingual support
- 🔍 Filter by date and keyword (planned)
- 📝 Community event entry (planned)
- Refactor to logical properties
- Add glossary explaining keywords
- Community event submission - allow users to add events
- Add filtering by date
- Expand to other cities, think of a good UX
- Build an event scraper(?) for auto-imports (e.g. from Instagram posts)
- Integrate with a, possibly paid, newsletter system
- Allow sync with personal calendars (Google/iCal/ICS — user-controlled)
- Added filtering on keywords
- Deployed first live version 🥳
- Add popovers for keywords with explanations
- Implement multilingual support
- Finalize MVP
- Add dark mode
- Made open source for community collaboration
- Initial frontend styling and layout
- Project structure
- Zotonic – semantic web framework powering the backend
- HTML,CSS, JS – custom-styled frontend
Datamodel:
graph TD
E[Event] --> | haslocation | L[Location]
E --> | hasorganisation | O[Organisation]
E --> | subject | K[Keyword]
We welcome contributions from anyone interested in queer tech, open source, or digital autonomy!
Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to get started.
- Open an issue to suggest a feature or report a bug
- Fork the repo and submit a pull request
- Reach out if you'd like to collaborate on outreach, accessibility, design, or moderation
This project intentionally avoids Google, Meta, and other corporate platforms that have a poor track record on privacy, inclusion, or ethical data use. We aim to provide a privacy-conscious, community-first alternative to event discovery.
Queer Calendar is a labor of love — and your support makes a difference. If you’d like to help sustain development and maintenance, consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor. Every bit helps. Thank you!
See SUPPORT.md for more ways to help.
Questions, ideas, or event tips?
→ events@queer-kalender.nl
💌 Built with pride, community values, and digital care.