I run a site mainly in the UK ( https://opentechcalendar.co.uk https://opentechcalendar.co.uk ) but with a small presence in Germany. ( http://opentechcalendar.

I run a site mainly in the UK ( https://opentechcalendar.co.uk https://opentechcalendar.co.uk ) but with a small presence in Germany. ( http://opentechcalendar.de http://opentechcalendar.de ) Our big idea is simple ..... we don't compete with meetup.com! We are a event listing service only. We work hard to list events and make the resulting data Open Data so many people can reuse it (and they do!). We do not sell/do tickets - if organisers want that they use the service of their choice and we link to that. We do not do members lists - organisers can use the email list or whatever of their choice and we link to that. Your point about it being hard to organise events - so true. To support event organisers in Scotland, we run a private email list and private real life discussion events to make connections, allow discussion and share resources but it's always hard. As for your goal - we would love to help you list all your local events :-) Anyone can add - you don't have to be the event organiser to do so: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/new https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/new