Yard History

Yard is a platform for supporting communities with relevant events launched on September 22, 2024. Pardon, Yard is currently in beta mode as we are making everything gradually work. This following list contains relevant developments in the past. You can find planned items in our roadmap.

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  • November 27, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar v1.02 was released. The location search has been optimized. You can now query for events in multiple cities, multiple countries, or multiple regions. Example: List of Web3 events in the D/A/CH countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
  • November 27, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin was released. You can now pass multiple city names through the city parameter (separated by a comma). Example: city=Berlin,Frankfurt
  • November 27, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin was released. The region parameter was introduced to filter events by continent. You can now pass multiple region names through the region parameter (separated by a comma). Example: region=Asia,Europe
  • November 26, 2024: A product update for Yard iFrame v1.02 was released. The iframe is now seamlessly integrated into the calling web page (demo). This means two things: you don't see scrollbars anymore and the iframe content can break out of the iframe (for example the modals with details for each event are fullscreen now).
  • November 25, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar v1.01 was released. Buttons are introduced and replace the accordion for navigating the tabs of the Yard Calendar.
  • November 23, 2024: A product update for Yard iFrame v1.01 was released. You can now customize the headline of any calendar with your own text.
  • November 22, 2024: A product update for Yard iFrame v1.0 was released. The initial version comes with basic functionality for including the Yard Calendar into any 3rd party website via iFrame. Users just have to add one line of code to their website to show current events to their audience.
  • November 17, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.06 was released. Under some circumstances the Yard Calendar was not correctly displayed using the plugin, now fixed. Addition of a new parameter called maxwidth (example: maxwidth=800px). The parameter topic now also accepts a list of topics (example: topic=web3,fintech).
  • November 5, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.05 was released. The display of the event tiles was optimized so that it looks the same no matter how the design of your own WordPress installation is.
  • October 5, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.04 was released. The changelog for the Yard Plugin (the text you're reading here) is now managed through the backend. The changelog is also published to your installed WordPress instance when viewing details of the new plugin version being available.
  • October 4, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.03 was released. From now on you can simply update the plugin from the WordPress plugins page, if there is an update available.
  • October 2, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.02 was released. The timeout for loading data was increased.
  • September 24, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.01 was released. The support to limit results by the shortcode parameter country to only show events for the given country name (example: country=Germany).
  • September 22, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin v1.0 was released. The initial version comes with basic functionality to include the WordPress plugin into any 3rd party website.
  • September 22, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar v1.0 was released. The initial version comes with basic functionality to let users search for events. The Yard Calendar is just available on the Yard website.

Before Yard existed

This list contains relevant developments before Yard was actually launched.

  • September 22, 2024: The "Finance Yard Event Calendar" is rebranded to "Yard" and launched under another domain name. This way also other topics, such as AI and IT, can be better presented under the new name. Finance Yard remains a community for emerging technologies and now uses a Yard Calendar with a subset of relevant events.
  • September 21, 2024: A new display mode for events was introduced: details mode.
  • August 28, 2024: The events overview was relaunched and it now features almost 400 upcoming events. Users can now also submit missing events through an online form. It turns out that the branding "Finance Yard" is to narrow for the increasing amount of events from areas such as information technology.
  • August 20, 2024: In conversations with other finance communities, the idea arises to allow the integration of the event calendar in other websites.
  • July 20, 2024: By accident, the people tasked to research Web3 events added events to the event calendar from areas such as fintech, finance, and AI. Finance Yard decided to add categories, so that users could also query events by topics besides just Web3 events.
  • July 14, 2024: Finance Yard launches the Web3 calendar containing 65 upcoming events worldwide.
  • Spring 2024: Michael Wutzke is fed up with the existing event calendars in the blockchain area which are often incomplete or outdated. Michael even sometimes misses conferences, after events, or other relevant event formats because of in-transparency concerning events. He decides to launch a Web3 event calendar in the future as part of the Finance Yard community website, with the goal to make it useful and interactive for many users.
  • April 2024: Michael Wutzke launches the Finance Yard community which originated from blockchain meetups originally co-created by him in 2022.
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