Re: EventPress vs Jet Event System
I have just been playing around with eventpress and am very impressed, find the plugin file layout a little different than used to in it’s use of a MVC pattern and the new custom pages but the results look very good, seems pretty stable.
Jet events is also worthy but I did have to customise it to add google maps picked up automagically from event address fields, the plugin does look to be in ongoing development which is good, although the same can be said of eventpress.
Jet events tables can be changed just create your own templates it’s what I would have done.
As for authors just check the files as they carry that information.
Best thing is to have a play around yourself with both to get a feel for which suits.