Well, after working with a variety of different events components for Joomla, we've finally realized that the non-profit community needed something a little more specific for its needs, and will soon be releasing our Non-Profit Soapbox Events component into the Soapbox family.
This has been a labour of love for Chris here, who's been busily coding away to meet our continuous tweaks and edits. However, the end result is something I think we'll all be very proud to provide our community. Our component will include (I can't possibly list them all):
- easy event posting
- RSS feeds (globally and by category)
- RSVP functionality
- Google map embedded into events
- Automated directions to event
- very clean front-end and back-end UI
- modules for both a monthly calendar view and listing view of events
Core to all of this is a very easy, and intuitive way for people to post and share events. And this is just version 1. Version 2 will be even more compelling.
We're looking forward to including this in the Soapbox family very soon!