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
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