Helping out here is easy, whether you are a coder or not.

# Keeping the events relevant (no coding required)

Take a look at http://comdev1-us-west.apache.org/events/, this is an
application we use to gather information for
http://www.apache.org/events/meetups.html

It's an automated process that will result in false positives at
times. To remove the false positives we can do two things:

  1) Mark a specific event as "not applicable" - which removes this
     one event from the list
  2) Mark an organizing group as "not applicable" - which
     prevents any future events organized by the same group appearing

To help with this process all we need is people to visit the page
periodically and click the appropriate link on the right hand side.
The more people we have doing this the easier it is for all of us.

# Events Lists Outside the USA

If you want to see better visibility of events outside the USA then
you will need to take ownership of an instance of this application
that collects events for your region. If meetup.com is commonly used
in your region then there is no coded needed, just setup and
maintenance of the application (see
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/tools (hopefully what you need
to get started is in readme.md). We can then incorporate the curated
events list in our calendar.

If your region doesn't use meetup.com then we need you'll first need
to find a provider of the information and integrate it into our
tool. See the next session.

# Improving the application

If you'd like to work with the code you can find it at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/tools (hopefully what you need
to get started is in readme.md.

Any feature that adds value is welcome. You can discuss feature
additions and implemetation on the dev@community.apache.org mailing
list (join with dev-subscribe@community.apache.org).