Organise any gathering inside your private network — and keep it as a memory when it's over.
A barn raising is not just a project. A baby shower is not just a calendar entry. A harvest potluck, a memorial work day, a community clean-up — these are the moments a community exists to make possible, and the moments that tell you most about what the community actually is.
ECO's Events feature lets any member of a network create a gathering, invite the community, coordinate volunteers for service projects, and — most importantly — automatically turn the event into a memory when it's over. The photographs, the names of who came, the story of what happened: all of it becomes part of the community's permanent private archive. The event doesn't disappear. It joins the record.
Not a calendar. The community, in one place, and what happened when it was.
A member creates an event with a title, date, time, venue, and description. It appears instantly on everyone's network. Members RSVP — yes, maybe, no — and the Conductor can see who's coming before the day arrives. No emails sent, no group chats to manage, no phone tree. The network is the invitation list.
When the event is a work party — a barn raising, a Habitat build, a community garden day, a tribal clean-up, a neighbourhood repair — the Service Board lets coordinators post specific needs: how many people are needed, what the work is, when to show up. Members tap "I can help" and they're on the list. The coordinator sees who signed up without chasing anyone.
Every event automatically has a video meeting room, created the moment a member first opens it — no account needed, no link to distribute. A remote family member can join a baby shower from another country. An elder who can't travel can still be at the table. The room exists inside the network; nobody outside can enter.
For tribal nations, Sikh communities, and other networks where some gatherings carry cultural or ceremonial weight, the Sacred Gathering flag disables external links, hides the event from any recording prompts, and restricts access to network members only. The community decides what is sacred. ECO enforces it technically.
After the event, members are prompted to add photographs, stories, and notes. The event joins the Memory Bank — tagged with the people who were there, the date, the place. Years later, the network can see who showed up to the 2026 barn raising. The Reminisce slideshow can filter to that day. The Historian can mark it Heritage. The gathering doesn't disappear — it becomes part of what the community is.
Every event that gets added to the record is one more data point in the community's story. Who organised. Who came. What the work was. What the celebration was for. A decade of events is a decade of evidence that this community exists, cares, and shows up — for each other, and for the record they're building for the people who come after them.
ECO doesn't decide what counts as an event. The community does. The system is the same whether the event is a barn raising, a potluck, a baby shower, a memorial, a language session, a mission send-off, a harvest festival, a work party, a birthday gathering, or a community meeting. The title, the description, and the memory are yours to write.
The vocabulary adapts too. A tribal network sees "Council" in its event chat. A faith community sees "Fellowship." A family network sees "Family." The event is the same feature — the language is the community's own.