This is a non-profit and volunteer-based project, and it is my (Joel Galvez) latest attempt (out of three) to find a way to know what going on on Saturday without relying on social media.

My personal interest is the artist-run spaces in and around Amsterdam, since that's where I live. Typically, these spaces operate under precarious conditions. They might not have time to add events yet once more for this purpose, and they might not be able to hire a web developer to export their data. They might not even have a very reliable website (for scraping). What most spaces do, however, is sending email newsletters.

In parallel with trying to find a way to stay up to date, I have also been trying to find a publishing model for events. Now, thanks to AI, I'm at this point where it works rather excellent for me personally. By running email newsletters through a locally hosted LLM I can get a decent overview of what's going on. The imperfections of AI is mitigated by seeing the real newsletter after one click.

The question is what do I now? The problem of "Staying up to date" has many facets: There is the difficult contradiction on how to target a certain audience by simultaneously being public, but at the same time restricting access to others. In other words you want to reach the 'right' people. The data should be shared without centralised and corporate control. The 'fediverse' offers one solution to these problems. 

I'm considering focusing on making the process of adding events easy and user friendly. That would make the current goal is for this project to become a 'funnel' to the fediverse (and/or perhaps bluesky, etc). I hear repeatedly how tedious it is to create and edit events for various systems - maybe this can be a tool for making that job easier?