The overarching idea is to give the possibility to eZ Community members to mention events of interest, to which they are planning on participating. More occasions to meet, basically.
http://lanyrd.com has the advantage of making it easy to any twitter-enabled eZ Community member to pop-in on an event : no local user management, only twitter. Lowering the entry-barrier, the share.ez.no team thinks. BUT, this event planning system will be conceived as open, from day 1 : adding connectors to other event management systems (like the great http://joind.in) will be made easy. Pragmatically, lanyrd.com is envisioned for the first round.
Cheers !
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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
Member of the Community Project Board
Good to keep it open from day 1, I think I'll assign myself to a joind.in version then. Oauth is also in the stages for it and to read data (as needed for the event registration system described), its really easy, see joind.in/api