On 06/02/15 04:44, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> Has anybody else ever looked at this concept or know of any existing >> work in this area other than the events wiki? > When the Debian events team existed and was maintaining > www.d.o/events, I filed #645720 requesting an iCal feed for > www.d.o/events. The team no longer exists and www.d.o/events is dead. > I think we need a proper Debian calendar service with a team behind > it, as I have mentioned on the services wishlist. As the events team > discovered, it is far too much work to manually gather events people > publish in various random places and publish them so it should be > something anyone can push events to (via web form, iCalendar feed or > other method) and should automatically push certain classes of events > to external calendars like LWN. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Services#wishlist > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/events/submit-event-to-lwn?view=markup >
There are probably a few ways to go about this without a formally constituted events team: a) it could be organized like planet.debian.org, people with commit access could put iCalendar files or links to their own hosted calendars into a VCS. Some script could aggregate and try to filter the content and serve it up in various ways for everybody else to consume. This could be quite ad-hoc but with minimal central management required. b) we could ask DSA to host a CalDAV server such as DAViCal[1]. Each user would have a login and would be able to connect from any CalDAV client (Evolution, Iceowl, etc) to publish events into one or more public calendars. The benefit of this is that people can use their GUI client to insert stuff more easily but it has the disadvantage that it is an extra thing for DSA to keep running. The public calendars would then be exposed as read-only iCalendar URLs for non-authenticated users. c) somebody could make (and support) some centralized database and/or web-front-end to something like DAViCal. This would mean people could manage event data through a web form without installing any GUI but it may require the most dev effort, unless there is already something like this that can be packaged and deployed easily by DSA. Whatever strategy was used to gather the data, it would then be possible to develop some adapter to merge it into the UDD iCalendar feed. If the data is well structured this wouldn't be hard, e.g. a simple rule would be to add some URL parameter to select from a set of pre-defined filters by region or topic. My own feeling is that we just find a quick way to let people submit data and then start looking at it and reporting on it to see how people may want to filter and personalize it. 1. https://packages.debian.org/davical -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
