# open-community-groups

**Repository Path**: cncf/open-community-groups

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: open-community-groups
- **Description**: Open source events platform for communities and organizations
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-09-30
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-16

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Open Community Groups

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

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## 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, plus organizer-controlled
  recording visibility

### 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, with user preferences for
  optional notifications

### 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](./docs/index.md) for quickstart guides and
dashboard workflows.

## Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.

## Code of Conduct

This project follows the [CNCF Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).

## License

Open Community Groups is an Open Source project licensed under the
[Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).