John entered the data into an instance of PyCon-Tech (django based converence management software used to PyConUS) loaded up the web pages, saved as html, and then stuck them into the EuroPython website.
That software supports all the features you are talking about, and yes, some people hate them. Oh well. Loosing the popups, personal schedule builder, reedit integration, slide upload, interest counts and session chair management are not that big a deal as long as you have them somewhere else. To see it in action see here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/schedule/ -Doug On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 12:42:04 Marius Gedminas wrote: >> The EuroPython 2008 timetable page has[1] has no downloadable iCalendar >> version. >> >> [1] http://registration.europython.eu/timetable.html >> >> What can I do to make one available? > > I think there's scope for collaboration here. I've been corresponding with > Ville Säävuori (the guy who did the EuroPython Web site lightning talk last > year) about Web site stuff, and one of the things he's interested in is > dynamic timetables. > >> I assume the HTML on that page was generated dynamically from a >> database; if I saw the code I'm sure I could write the equivalent for >> iCal and send the patch to the maintainer. > > I don't know what John and company has done, but it looks like very structured > information that a program might have produced from a database of some kind. > >> I feel like I should know these things from previous EuroPython >> IRC meetings. I'm sorry that I didn't pay enough attention. > > No need to be sorry: I doubt that we touched on these things. I like the > presentation of the timetable, and I appreciate the lack of pop-ups which, in > my opinion, made the original PyCon (not PyCon UK) timetables not so nice to > navigate, but I understand that dynamic timetables and iCalendar support can > be interesting to some people, even though they don't seem like high priority > things when putting everything else together for the conference. > > Paul > > P.S. Out of impatience and for some amusement, I wrote a nasty little program > to parse the timetable page and produce an iCalendar file. See this page for > the details: > > http://www.europython.org/Planning/WebSite > _______________________________________________ > Europython-improve mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve > _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
