Yard History
This list contains relevant developments in the past. You can find planned items in our roadmap.
- November 19, 2024: The web pages for two new editions of the Yard Calendar were released: Print Integration and Billboard Integration.
- November 16, 2024: 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.
- 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.
- September 24, 2024: The first user 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.
Yard Plugin
- Yard Plugin v1.06 was released on November 17, 2024: Under some circumstances the Yard Calendar was not correctly displayed using the plugin, now fixed. Addition of a new parameter called maxwidth. The parameter topic now also accepts a list of topics.
- Yard Plugin v1.05 was released on November 5, 2024: 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.
- Yard Plugin v1.04 was released on October 5, 2024: 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.
- Yard Plugin v1.03 was released on October 4, 2024: From now on you can simply update the plugin from the WordPress plugins page, if there is an update available.
- Yard Plugin v1.02 was released on October 2, 2024: The timeout for loading data was increased.
- Yard Plugin v1.01 was released on September 24, 2024: The support to limit results by the shortcode parameter country to only show events for the given country name.
- Yard Plugin v1.0 was released on September 22, 2024: First version of the Yard Plugin was released: events are fetched from a remote server.
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 calendar in other websites.
- July 20, 2024: By accident, the people tasked to research Web3 events added events to the 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 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.