Gabriola Events set out to list all community events on Gabriola Island.
The idea was to:
- Make all Gabriola event listings free forever.
- Keep the site free of advertising.
- Make it so that people would eventually be able to add their own event listings to the site, all by themselves.
- Allow Gabriola’s event organizers to add photos, video links, and whatnot to their event listings.
- Provide both a calendar listing of Gabriola events, and a text blurb listing for each event.
- Make the whole thing easy to use, easy to search.
- Eventually spin the whole thing off into the hands of a non-profit group that would keep the site running and teach new people how to add events.
- Ensure that Gabriola Events is run by people who only want to help the community promote events, as opposed to people who want to promote their own names or business.
Well, can you do that?
I can’t, as it happens. I no longer have the energy. It’s time for me to move on, and that’s why Gabriola Events isn’t active anymore.
Perhaps somebody else will come along and create the sort of non-commercial events website for Gabriola that I’d like to see. I’d like that. If you are that person, I wish you well.