Get Plings

Plings is about Places to Go and Things to Do for young people. It is about positive activities like youthwork, or sports training or community involvement. Our philosophy is to "fish where the fish are" with Plings - so rather than build ONE website or print 10,000 (out-of date) leaflets - we build data feeds and channels to help organisation put information in, and young people, parents and communities get information out.. and back.

Phew - someone put the kettle on!

Our approach with the Plings project has been to focus on aggregating information relating to activities, rather than formatting and styling them. We bolt information together, turn it into feeds with wonderful acronyms such as RSS, XML, iCal, KML,CSV, etc - and then work to build stuff with these feeds. Even better - people can build their own stuff!

Locally, we have worked with Manchester and Stockport councils - who have subscribed to this philosophy. Stockport Council posted the Plings Google Calendar onto their website! Manchester even put Plings out via Bluetooth at the Printworks Centre!

Check out our various Plinterfaces (yes, we know - not very catchy!) and tell us how you'd like yours.

Stockport Plings: This is how (some of) the people of Stockport like their Plings.

Manchester Plings: In Manchester it's similar but different...

Sched: We've teamed up with Sched to allow people to share their Plings with friends and organise which activities they'll go to over the summer.