For calendar owners
These guides are for the people running calendars on Pavillion — community organizers, venue staff, neighborhood associations, regional councils, anyone whose job it is to publish events that other people can find.
Two ways to read this section:
- New to Pavillion? Start with the Quickstart. It takes you from a fresh login to a published calendar with one real event in about ten minutes. Everything else in this section is reference material you can come back to as you need it.
- Already running a calendar? Browse the sidebar. Each guide answers a specific goal — running a recurring event, inviting a collaborator, importing from another calendar, sharing your public URL. Read the one you need.
What's in this section
Quickstart — the on-ramp, login to first published event.
Build out your calendar — recurring events, categories, places, series, identity, multilingual content. Everything that shapes what's on the calendar.
Work with collaborators — editors and shared calendar management.
Connect with other calendars — following neighbors, reposting events, the social side of running a calendar in a federated network.
Bring events in from elsewhere — migrating from existing calendars (Google, Nextcloud, WordPress, Gancio, Mobilizon) via ICS import.
Share your calendar — public URLs, embeddable widgets, the distribution surface.
Sustain your calendar — community funding plans for keeping the lights on.
Day-to-day operations — cancellations, moderation, account management.
What's not here
- Running a Pavillion server. That belongs to the administrator guides.
- Contributing to Pavillion itself. That belongs to the developer guides.
- The ActivityPub protocol. Referenced where it surfaces, but not taught here. Pavillion uses ActivityPub the way email uses SMTP — you don't need to know the protocol to send a message.