Forró Events Lite

Welcome to Forró Events Lite where you can browse events and hosts of the Forró Events App↗. This is a stripped down, read-only web version. To sign up or create events, use the regular app.

• Map/ shows a map of all upcoming Forró events.
• Events/ allows you to browse upcoming Forró events by country and city.
• Hosts/ gives a listing of hosts organizing Forró events.

Motivation for a lite version

We built this lite version, because the following principles where hard to achieve within the regular app:

• Sustainability: Over time, the regular app's underlying frameworks and libraries become more resource hungry and drop support for older android/ios versions. Therfore, the app will run very slowly or not at all on older phones. We don't want to exclude people who can't (e.g. for financial reasons) or refuse to (e.g. for environmental reasons) replace their phone every x years just to display a simple list of events.
• Accessibility: The flutter framework and its web canvas renderer does not lend itself to screen readers, visual modifications (such as high-contrast modes) or viewing on special devices. We hope to make this possible in the lite version.
• Subscribe via ical: We always wanted to provide a way to publish the events as ical. This allows users to subscribe to the events using their favourite calendar application without being forced to use the app. Unfortunately, ical publishing turned out to be difficult to implement with the location+radius approach of the regular app.
• Filter by country: The community wished to be able to filter events by country. The regular app only supports filtering by position/location + radius.

Comparison of lite and full app version