Blog
News, insights, and updates from the Fesutibaru team.
Updates from August: Getting the Clock Right
Five fixes for times an hour out under British Summer Time, independent backups, custom fields in emails, crew on the event views, and spreadsheet exports that match the screen.
Updates from July: Crew, Availability and Carbon
One person, many jobs: crew capabilities, per-person availability on the Driver Schedule, a return-to-base leg for every run, and a per-edition CO₂ report.
Updates from June: Home Pages and the Tidy-Up
Editable festival welcome pages, an On Site Today board, multiple images per event, and a deliberate round of simplification.
Getting Authors There: Festival Logistics, End to End
Room sharing, a drag-and-drop Driver Schedule, and a joined-up path from booking to pick-up. The logistics workflow is now complete.
Planner in Your Pocket: The Apps Are Here
Planner is now a native app on the App Store and Google Play, with a role-based home screen for everyone on your festival team.
Updates from April: Custom Fields, Logistics and Live Stream
Every festival gets to shape its own data, the Logistics Schedule grows teeth, and stays get their own home.
Nothing Is Ever Gone
Every delete is now reversible, every change traceable. Why that's a bigger deal for festivals than it sounds.
Updates from March: Galleries, Email and a Bit of AI
Managing images at scale, a proper email audit trail, and the first bit of AI lands in Planner.
Updates from February
What we shipped in February.
Why We're Building Fesutibaru
After twenty years running a major book festival, I know exactly what's broken. Now we're fixing it.