Yard History

  • December 14, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. You can now combine locations in an event search. For example, you can now search for "Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg" or "Europe, Asia" to limit the results to just these places.
  • December 14, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin was released. A significant improvement was published for the WordPress Integration of the Yard Calendar, bringing it on the same level with the other Yard Calendar integrations.
  • December 14, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. Events submitted through any Yard Calendar are now 48 hours in quarantine until they are visible. This duration can be shortened if the submitted event has been reviewed by a human.
  • December 14, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. The dropdown for selecting a location was replaced with a text search field. You can now find events much faster in a city (ie "New York"), in a country (ie "Germany"), or in a region (ie "Asia").
  • December 4, 2024: A product update for Yard website was released. A vertical event navigation was introduced to make it easier to access events (visible at the left screen side).
  • December 2, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. The popup to find events is now available.
  • November 30, 2024: A new event format has been added called "scholarship or educational program". The first two educational programs available Bitcoin Talents and DLT Talents.
  • November 30, 2024: A product update for Yard website was released. The popups have been tuned and now have a sticky footer. This way the buttons are always visible (important when you have a long page). The popups also have been visually tuned.
  • November 29, 2024: Yard introduced a tracking functionality to monitor which events and cards are most accessed across all distribution channels (Yard website, Yard API, Yard Calendars, etc).
  • November 29, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. The functionality to add events was moved into a popup. This way it will be easier to suggest missing events from anywhere on the Yard website and any website which integrated the Yard Calendar. Example: add event
  • November 29, 2024: A product update for Yard website was released. The Yard frontend software now supports stacked popups above each other. This will be helpful for future product updates where popups become a central role in navigating. Example: Add event (1st level) and then click on "terms of use" (2nd level).
  • November 28, 2024: A product update for Yard website was released. The event details page is now matching the same content and content formatting of an event popup. Example: Token 2049 details page vs Token 2049 popup.
  • November 28, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin was released. By default, the navigation is now always open for new users to ease getting around. Experienced users can uncheck "keep navigation open" for keeping the navigation in a folded state.
  • 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 27, 2024: A product update for Yard Calendar was released. When you click on an event, you will now always see an event popup window instead of the event details page. This will be important for displaying events on webpages which include the Yard Calendar, since the majority of accesses to Yard Calendars will happen on 3rd party websites. Example of an event popup: Token 2049
  • 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 25, 2024: A new website navigation was rolled out to ease getting around. The menus now stay open until you close them.
  • 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 22, 2024: A product update for Yard iFrame was released. An example website was created to show how easily Yard Calendars can be integrated using iframes by anyone running a finance or business website.
  • November 19, 2024: The web pages for two new editions of the Yard Calendar were released: Print Integration and Billboard Integration.
  • 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 16, 2024: A product update for Yard Plugin was released. The Yard Calendar has been released as Hosted Integration.
  • November 15, 2024: The Yard Calendar has been released as iFrame Integration.
  • November 13, 2024: The login functionality to My Yard has been launched (account creation through email).
  • November 12, 2024: Full text search was enabled in the global website search.
  • 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 26, 2024: Launch of the web pages describing the upcoming Yard products.
  • October 6, 2024: The beta version of Yard Cards goes online and the first card is released. No cards can yet be created.
  • 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 24, 2024: The first publisher is integrating the Yard Calendar using Plugin Integration.
  • September 23, 2024: Launch of the Yard Plugin for Wordpress to show Yard's events in the website of 3rd parties.
  • September 22, 2024: Jochen Biedermann, Michael Wellenbeck, and Michael Wutzke are members of the Yard Advisory Board.
  • September 22, 2024: The website of Yard is launched and is set to become a platform for discovering events and managing them.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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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