By hendler on

EventBrite[1] is a service that allows management of events.

EventBrite provides an open API [2] to integrate with their system , which provides many services [3] which are either non-trivial or perhaps impractical to do in Drupal.

Perhaps the Drupal module would be useful in the following use cases:

  • You want to charge for an event, but don't want to use Calendar/Signup/RSVP/Date/payment/etc
  • You want advanced features provided by Evenbrite
  • You already use Eventbrite

Proposed Features:

  • provide a CCK node type, or just a node field
  • provide a view with date api field for calendar display
  • integrate with profile
  • import/export users
  • use Evenbrite as a login option (email password) allowing integrated signup, and allowing more of the user experience to stay on your site.

Any thoughts as the module enters planning stages is welcome. Some topics for discussion:

  • Would you use this module? Why?
  • Where does this overlap with Drupal functionality and where should it be integrated/separated?

The project home is at:
http://drupal.org/project/eventbrite

[1] - http://www.eventbrite.com/home
[2] - http://www.eventbrite.com/api
[3] - http://www.eventbrite.com/features

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

Comments

nally’s picture

nally commented

It's surprising that no one else has commented on this effort yet. I would be interested in helping out with this. Is there any code kicking around?

Christian Nally - B.C., Canada - http://sticksallison.com

mamsden’s picture

mamsden commented

I'm interested if anyone has worked through this yet ... if not, i might have a project and a little funding to make it happen. Eventbrite just received a large amount of funding so they could become a pretty big player in this field.

mamsden’s picture

mamsden commented

I might have a little money to contribute as well.

chrispalle’s picture

chrispalle commented

I would put up support as well. We're intending to use Eventbrite with several upcoming projects. Any word on the status?

offordscott’s picture

offordscott commented

Has anyone figured this out yet? I'm hoping to present Drupal / Eventbrite integration to a prospective client.

stemount’s picture

stemount commented

I'm writing an eventbrite module as we speak and will put it on Github upon completion so it can be contributed into D.O when D.O has moved to Git.

offordscott’s picture

offordscott commented

I'll be interested in hearing how this turns out. Keep us posted here. Thanks.

papercutny’s picture

papercutny commented

I'm working on a personal project where users will be able to list their EventBrite events on the my site. I could possibly do a workaround or a lot of forwarding but I would love to have an integration. What's the progress on this so far?

ryanilg’s picture

ryanilg commented

Interested to see where this will go. I have a project coming up in the next month that will require eventbrite integration. I can help out if needed as well.

mrconnerton’s picture

mrconnerton commented

I have been given ownership of the project and would like to restart the discussion here about what we want to get out of this module (since no actual code exists)

I believe in the short term I will be creating an interface which will create event signup forms as blocks for the site.

That will give us some actual code and a starting place.

From there, I would love to see how we can pull all the api has to offer into drupal.

I welcome all your comments and suggestions.

mattmetzger’s picture

mattmetzger commented

I am very interested in helping test this when the time comes.
For workshop registrations on our Ubercart site, we first used node_checkout, and recently switched to uc_signup. Both are ok, but can't come close to the functionality of Eventbrite. Right now I'm setting up an Eventbrite event for our upcoming conference, and we'll just link away from our site for registration. The added benefits of Eventbrite are worth the hassle.

mrconnerton’s picture

mrconnerton commented

Well the api does not have a method for signing up for an event, so the user will always (at this point) have to go to th event brite site to do so. However, displaying the events, links, etc should be easier because of this module.

mattmetzger’s picture

mattmetzger commented

gotcha, no problem with directing away for signup. What about options for importing Eventbrite users into Drupal, and maybe marking their profile somehow as having attended the event. Very similar to the drupal.org profile which has a "Drupal" tab, we could have a tab which shows what workshops/conferences the user has attended. This would be very helpful for reports such as "Display all users who have attended a workshop as well as any products they've purchased from our store."

mrconnerton’s picture

mrconnerton commented

I have posted the first release that builds blocks for your events.

Please try out the module and then submit some bug/feature requests to help build it out.

wastrilith2k’s picture

wastrilith2k commented

Can you tell me where this is located to download for testing?

Edit: Nevermind, found it!

Thanks,

James