Several other people in Waterloo Region aggregate local resources for you to enjoy. Here are the ones we know about. If you know of others please tell us.
TL;WR is a weekly email newsletter of tech, arts and culture events produced by Alex Kinsella.
WRDashboard documents and aggregates many different information resources in the region. It is maintained by Andrew Cant.
KWPeace curates events related to peace and social justice. It is maintained by Eleanor Grant.
Unboring KW lists activities and events that bored people can participate in to cure themselves.
KW Concerts aggregates information about concerts in the region.
Explore Waterloo Region is the designated Destination Marketing Organization for the region. They offer an events calendar with an RSS feed .
KW Events Radar is an initiative to grab interesting local events off social media and into iCal feeds.
CuratedKW is an Instagram site and blog covering local things to do. It is moderated by two sets of sisters.
The Local Advocate is an events calendar put together by Elaine Decleir.
(RIP WRBlogs)
There are many aggregation sites listed on https://wrdashboard.ca, but here are a few that are worth singling out:
There is an aggregation site called https://allevents.in which offers RSS feeds for local events. Unfortunately the site does not do a good job of distinguishing areas with the same name, so the Waterloo feed contains events in Iowa and Belgium, and the Cambridge feed is hopeless:
There are so many event calendars that ought to exist in this region:
If you are passionate about a series of events where you live, you should totally set up a calendar and publish feeds for it. The biggest bottleneck is people: it takes a few hours a week to maintain a calendar. However, once a calendar exists many others can benefit.
If you would like to generate feeds for events in your area/interest, you can find the scripts we use on Github:
If you would like some help figuring out how to use these scripts, get in touch.
If you have used these scripts (or other tools) to make event listings with consumable feeds, let us know! We are expecially interested in other listings for Waterloo Region.