Status: Website is offically in Beta.
I am working on completing changes and adding features to to address feedback. After receiving and acting upon feedback, I will then officially release the search link to everyone. Update: I have a few more large changes I want to make, and will be out of town for a few weeks early april, but I expect I will be able to release the link for general use probably towards the end of April or early May.
The main release is not the end. The system is built in a modular way, so I plan to continue adding more features and more event sources over time.
Change Log
- 03-01-26Beta feedback Changes. Finished implementing address standarization: System more smartly gathers events with various address text formats into location buckets that are easier to search.
- 02-14-26Beta feedback Changes. Built out admin page to administer location info, and the framework i'll eventually use to standardize event addresses.
- 02-01-26Beta feedback Changes. Users can now 'Flag' events they notice are inaccurate. + admin page to review/administer flags. Visual upgrades + More consistant css and site-wide color schemes.
- 01-24-26Beta feedback Changes. Added +cuteness to sign up email. Fixed Html encoding issues.
- 01-19-26Beta feedback Changes. Fixed bug in new user emails not sending. Raised limit from 10 to 15 days on the max search range.
- 01-17-26Beta feedback Changes. Slicker ui features, basic loading spinner. Stickyheaders to keep date visible when scrolling.
- 01-10-26Fixing little issues here and there to make things look a little nicer, I'll probably send out the emails tomarrow.
- 01-01-26I think it is ready to release a beta version out to the event organizations. Compiling contact info and preparing for release.
- 01-01-26Lots of odds and ends off the TODO list. Minified some javascript and styles for UI performance.
- 12-26-25Added distributed cache for default search results. Results are now cached and shared across all users, significantly improving performance.
- 12-24-25Added show/hide all toggle button to search pages.
- 12-20-25Fairly large refactor of the Database code layer to simplify and standardize data access patterns.
- 10-19-25Finished upgrading container deploy. Various small logging and recording upgrades.
- 10-18-25Consistently named database columns. Slightly improved deployment process for large containers.
- 10-11-25Integrated Playwright using containers. Allows gathering more complex data. Now showing new events from MakerWorks and RiversideArtsCenter.
- 10-06-25Upgraded Aws Lambda functions to deploy and run within docker containers.
- 10-05-25Improved privacy and terms of service pages.
- 10-04-25Fix broken data sources. Added AnnArborSymphonyOrchestra events.
- 9-28-25Handful of fixes and improvements to the way the automated jobs run and the way they record their statuses to help with administration.
- 9-06-25Added Meetup.com Events and a small section to allow completely optional small donations.
- 8-16-25Setup new email address for contact/business using new domain + website hosting cost saving AWS optimizations.
- 8-10-25Visual/rebranding changes to use 'A2EventSearch' instead of 'A2ea' in the logos and around the website.
- 8-03-25Added More Event Sources. Now showing Zingerman Bakehouse cooking classes, and Michigan Theater live events.
- 6-29-25Took a break, back, round of minor bug fixes and got running event sources back to 100%.
- 4-11-25Finally got distributed Caching working in all the places that needs it.
- 3-16-25Improving Distributed Caching strategy to improve performance and save money.
- 3-14-25More admin functionality. Can Manually edit events.
- 3-01-25More admin functionality. Can Manually add events.
- 2-22-25More admin functionality. Can exclude events from being searchable if it is needed.
- 2-15-25Working on admin tools. Building Event Manager page.
- 2-8-25New Page Notification Admin tool. Allows easily adding notifications to the top of pages if I need to, for whatever reason.
- 1-26-25Advanced Search Page mostly fully working. Allows event searching on many new fields and in new ways.
- 1-19-24Added better Unauthorized page instead of always just redirecting back to login. New page better explains when areas are accessible or not.
- 1-19-24Split 'advanced search' into it's own section away from main UI. think i'll just require 'basic' login to access advanced search.
- 1-14-24Now Scraping all upcoming Penny Stamp Speaker events.
- 1-5-24Created branded Cognito domains auth.a2ea.com, auth.a3ea.com for login redirect, instead of the messy AWS urls.
- 1-4-25Restricted access to some of the admin and user specific sections, this allows in future to put personalized and better debug and administrative functions in website.
- 1-4-25Can now create users, login, logout. Some day, users, 100% optionally, can set up custom event notifications via their accounts, and other cool things.
- 1-3-25Cognito Set up to handle user management.
- 1-2-25AWS SES set up to allow for transactional email notifications (email verification or password reset messages).
- 12-24-24Now Scraping Events hosted by Spark.
- 12-20-24The way system gathers and retains data for past events is more consistant and configurable.
- 12-20-24More responsive search page. Page more cleanly prevents searching on dates that are not allowed.
- 12-19-24Now Scraping reccuring events from Circ Bar
- 12-19-24Fixed bugs with reccuring event type
- 12-1-24Added Run Details into admin page. Helps better see at a glance if something isnt running.
- 11-31-24Events can now be multiple event types, and the system that catigorizes them works slightly better
- 11-30-24Now Scraping AAComedyShowcase Shows
- 11-23-24Now scraping UOM College Sports ( basic data only, not totally happy with quality of the data source)
- 11-10-24Upgraded adminstrative tools, now better visibility from admin page when system/lambdas are unhealthy.
- 11-02-24Website now secure with HTTPS. Urls like http:// now route to the https:// version of the site
- 11-01-24Adding intelligent caching to search page
- 10-26-24Trying to search and browse events on a phone is now slightly less awful
- 10-26-24Built Buildscripts to Bulk Deploy all the Utility Lambda functions at once
- 10-20-24Now showing UOM events, may add more sections to this gradually to gather data from more subsections
- 10-20-24Added Time to the dates which can search between
- 10-19-24Showing 'The Ark'' and 'The Blind Pig'' events
- 10-19-24Ajax-ified the search page, no more full page refreshes, back button works in browser and able to do a couple cooler ui things now.
- 10-14-24Search page UI Improvements and new advanced search section that dosnt work yet
- 10-14-24Setup new A2EA Email address so people wont bother me at my personal email
- 10-13-24Added support for events that do not have an end time.
- 10-13-24Now getting data for UMS Events
- 9-27-24Added support for importing and searching multi-Day events
- 9-27-24Built tool to allow manually entering events outside of the automated system
- 9-27-24Now getting data for AA Disctrict Library Events
- 9-20-24Website UI Updates
- 9-15-24Split everything into 2 enviroments, Test and Prod for the website/database/lambdas/Aws Setup/configurations/etc.. more time consuming than it sounds.
- 9-15-24Created a Production Database
- 9-15-24Now getting data for A2gov events
- 9-08-24Built Winform Tool to help with the process of running/building/troubleshooting lambdas
- 9-08-24Refactored base classes to allow for storing more data types about events
- 9-08-24Consolidation and DocumentDBData TestData lambdas are built and scheduled to run daily.
- 9-08-24Added a favicon
- 9-01-24Scheduled DocumentDBData_Lambda to run a test record into the database once per day.
- 9-01-24Made public subnet, internet gateway, nat gateway, private subnet and now lambda functions can be configured if needed, to 'see' the internet
- 9-01-24Created lambda to test internet access.
- 8-24-24Created logo and styles/fonts
- 8-24-24Built basic lambda, got it to run locally
- 8-23-24Website can now get data out of the db, (with SSL certificates)
- 8-17-24Website hosted and working on the domain name
- 8-16-24Set up load balancers, and private subnets
- 8-16-24Built Test lambda to add some data into the db when ran
- 8-16-24Successfully pushed a Lambda task from local into AWS via scripts (no more manually copying files)
- 8-16-24Built basic lambda function "MyFirstLambdaFunction" which runs when test fired from AWS
- 8-10-24Started project
For full historical notes, check the project changelog or contact the site owner.