This component has a lot of potential but it is sabotaged by it's "Venue" requirement for every entry.

While the venue functionality makes sense for club promoters etc, it does not make sense for trade shows and smaller events which are either hosted in a different venue every year or are too small to have a "venue". Also for events like fairs a venue doesn't make sense as sometimes these fairs or gatherings are in parks or other public places with no normal address.

The separate venue option really only makes sense if you have recurring events happening at that venue.

While the "add event" functionality has a "no venu" option there is no way to enter an address, website or even a city or state.

My recommendation to the programmers is to make the Venue functionality optional and have the default functionality show an expanded "event details" entry form which includes the location information such as address, Contact info, website and map link.

Another thing I think could be improved is the list view. For the homepage, they only give you the option to list events with very basic information (title, date, time,VENU, etc.) or to go straight to a details view of a single event.

It would be nice to see something between the "simple list" and "details" view where you can show a list of events with say the event title, Location, image thumbnail and short 1-4 line summary.

And of course it would also be great to have calendar functionality built or at least a mini-calendar module that could be placed on the right or left side.

If they implemented all of that I'd be willing to pay $30 for this component. As it stands now I'm looking for a different solution instead.