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Adding Calendar Events - Calendar Editor

Adding Calendar Events - Directly in TeamUp

If you only rarely add events to the calendar, it is probably easiest to just complete the calendar form

If you regularly add events for your group/team/community then you will be assigned a private edit link for the calendar, then you will be able to create and edit events. This next section explains tips for each of the fields to help get your event found easily.

Event Title

This is what a user will see first, so keep it short, descriptive and ideally include an overall location. We also suggest using one of these emoticons as the first character, so that users can visually see what type of action it is (this has been added to the Key in the Calendar itself as well):

🔥 Protest 📣 March 🥁 Drumming 💥 Campaign 🎭 Performance/Theatre eg Reds 🐝 Community Assembly ⚖️ Court case 🎪 Circus/Festival ⛺ Camping

Some teams have also decided on a specific emoticon to flag their events and allow for easier filtering eg ☄️for XR London.

Dates

You can have all day, or start and end times. Repeating events are also possible. For example the third Tuesday every month.

Sub Calendar

Select one or more of these as appropriate:

  • Actions - UK-wide / UK Significance: This needs to be agreed with Action Circle and have UK-wide locations and/or media impact. Eg. Dirty Water, The Big One.
  • Actions - National/Regional/Local: The majority of Actions will fall into this category. Coordinated by Local Groups, Communities or temporary Action teams. E.g. March on the Mine, Wales
  • Actions - Non-XRUK: These take the form of collaborative, allied organisation and/or Sister Movement actions. E.g. Fossil Free London, Housing Rebellion.
  • Key Dates - XR: E.g. Rebellion dates, Open Calls
  • Key Dates - External Eg. World Cup Final, Local/National Election
  • Talks, Training and workshops: events usually hosted online although some are face to face
  • Meetings - Local: Mostly social events mainly aimed at XR members in a town or community
Where (full address please)

If a specific location is known (and you are OK to share it) then put this in here.
So that integration with the website map will work, a full address with postcode is required. Don't add anything else like "around the back of" or a W3W location (these details should go in the description).

If you only want to specify a vague location, use a Town name.

For online local meetings, add the Town name here so that the meeting will show up on the map and nearby rebels will find it.

Further address location information can always be included in the Description field with multiple ways of describing a location so people will find it when they filter/search

Description

Explain event, add hyperlinks etc. You can also embed images.
Include any specific details about the meeting point - remember a first time rebel may be nervous about meeting and may not know others attending. For example "By front of Ghandi statue in Parliament Square" is better than Parliament Square"
Don’t add links to secure chats or anything that you wouldn’t want the police to know Do try and include a call to action.

Who

Put a general team name in here XR London, XR SE for example. You can put several names in here if collaborating Don't put an individual's name.

This can be a Url, an Action Network event form, an email, a link to a Facebook event - basically some way for rebels to contact you if they are interested. If you enter something in here, the button will be displayed in the map event

Updating / Correcting Calendar Events

It's fine to add a placeholder event whilst details are finalised so rebels at least save the date (but add that details to be added later in the description) .
Please make sure details are accurate to avoid publishing wrong info. It is the responsibility of the group/person editing TeamUp to make sure that any changes are updated in the calendar directly Calendar Mattermost Reception | Email: mov.calendar@extinctionrebellion.uk

Also quickly contact the MM and email team if it relates to a UK action/event where the change of info might impact other teams: M&M Mattermost Reception | Email: mov.comms@extinctionrebellion.uk

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