Skip to content

cncf/open-community-groups

Open Community Groups

Open Community Groups is an open source events platform for communities and organizations.

Warning

This project is currently in the early stages of development and is in beta.

Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4 Screenshot 5 Screenshot 6

Features

Discovery

  • Browse communities, groups, and events from a public site
  • Explore events in list or calendar views
  • Explore groups in list or map views
  • Search and filter by community, category, region, date, and event type
  • View platform stats for groups, members, events, and attendees

Communities and Groups

  • Community dashboards for branding, taxonomy, teams, analytics, and groups
  • Dedicated site for each community
  • Dedicated site for each group
  • Group dashboards for settings, events, members, sponsors, analytics, and teams
  • Member management and group-wide communication
  • Multi-community support from a single deployment
  • Role-based community and group access with audit logs
  • Shared regions and categories for organizing groups and events
  • Sponsor profiles that can be reused across group and event pages

Events

  • Call for Speakers workflows with reusable proposals, co-speaker invitations, reviewer feedback, ratings, and accepted sessions
  • Capacity management with sold-out, waitlist, and invitation-review options
  • Custom event pages with banners, galleries, tags, markdown descriptions, and social sharing
  • Host in-person, virtual, or hybrid events
  • Multi-session agendas with per-session timing and speakers
  • Paid ticketing with Stripe Checkout, ticket tiers, discount codes, and refund review
  • Recurring event creation with series-aware publish, unpublish, cancel, and delete actions
  • RSVP, attendance tracking, QR code check-in, and manual organizer check-in

Meetings

  • Zoom integration with automatic meeting setup
  • Per-event and per-session meeting support with automatic meeting cleanup
  • Support for manual meeting and recording links

Notifications

  • Automated notifications for registrations, reminders, event changes, cancellations, waitlists, speaker submissions, and refunds
  • Calendar attachments for event confirmations and updates
  • Custom emails to event attendees and group members

Users

  • Email/password login with email verification
  • GitHub and Linux Foundation social login options
  • Invitation inbox for community and group team access
  • Personal dashboard for upcoming events, profile, invitations, proposals, submissions, and audit history
  • User profiles with photos, social links, interests, and location

Documentation

Start with the documentation for quickstart guides and dashboard workflows.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Code of Conduct

This project follows the CNCF Code of Conduct.

License

Open Community Groups is an Open Source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

About

Open source events platform for communities and organizations

Resources

License

Code of conduct

Contributing

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Contributors