PavillionFederated events calendar

Documentation for the people building, running, and stewarding Pavillion communities.

For calendar owners

Run a calendar on a Pavillion instance — create and curate events, manage editors, configure funding plans, and federate with other communities.

Calendar owner guides

For instance administrators

Deploy, operate, and maintain a Pavillion server — installation, configuration, email and storage setup, secret rotation, and federation testing.

Administrator guides

For contributing developers

Contribute to Pavillion itself — local development setup, architectural patterns, internationalization, testing conventions, and the contribution workflow.

Developer guides

Pavillion is a federated, community-funded events calendar. Anyone can browse public events anonymously — accounts only exist for the people who organize and steward calendars. Federation happens over ActivityPub, so calendars on different instances can share, follow, and aggregate one another.