Create an event

Fill in the form section by section, save a draft as you go, and publish when it's ready.

Choose + New Event. The form is split into sections down one side, and a live Preview shows how your event card will look as you fill it in.

Nothing is visible to anyone until you publish. You can save a draft at any point and come back.

Organization and ring

Pick the Organization and the Ring the event belongs to. This decides who sees it and who gets notified when you publish, so it's worth getting right before anything else.

The basics

Title — what it's called
Description — what it is, who it's for, what to expect
Visibility — Public or Private
Event type

A good description answers the questions you'd otherwise get asked one at a time in chat: is it suitable for beginners, is there food, should they bring anything, what happens if it rains.

Date and time

Set Starts at, and an end time if there is one — events can be open-ended.

The form warns you if the start is in the past: "This start date is in the past. You can still save a draft." That's a nudge, not a block, so you can prepare something you'll date properly later.

This section is also where you make an event repeat — see the article on recurring events.

Location

Either a venue or an Online event with a link. For a physical venue you can add a Room and Instructions — the buzzer code, which door, where to park. Put it here rather than in the description; it's what people look for on the way.

Capacity

Set a limit or leave it unlimited. Once it's full, further RSVPs are waitlisted rather than turned away, so set a real number rather than padding it.

Check-in

Turn it on if you want to know who actually arrived. It's off by default — a potluck for nine doesn't need a scanner.

Hosts and co-hosts

You're the host by default. Add co-hosts from this ring, or hand the host role to someone else.

See the article on hosts and co-hosts for how this works.

Publishing

Publish makes it live. Members of the ring are notified, and the event appears in discovery if it's public.

Until then it carries a Draft badge and only you and your co-hosts can see it.

After you publish

You can still edit. Changes to the time, the end time, the location or the online link are shown to everyone who's RSVP'd as "Changed since you joined the event," naming exactly what moved — so edit freely, but know it's visible.