On Tuesday 17 February 2009 00:33:35 Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 16 Feb: > > > Please don't take it so hard. It's just normal artifact of a club > > > meeting that requires no RSVP. > > > > Maybe. But I've noticed a gradual dwindling in the number of Telux > > attendees in the past months, and it makes me unhappy. > > Well, I can tell you that my favorite channel for event updates these > days is an ical subscription to my Google Calendar. that way I can see > it in my calendar, get a (free!) SMS reminder before the event and/or an > Email to remind me a few hours or days before it (no need for mailing > list) or as RSS (no need for you to feed me). >
We have a Google Calendar. Search for "Google Calendar" on http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ . I believe Google provides iCal or whatever. So you can subscribe to our calendar using most standards-compliant calendering tool. > However, since Google is starting to irk me lately, that may change in > favor of T-bird+lightning (I haven't tested how it handles ical > subscriptions) Fair enough. You can subscribe to our iCal using it as well. > > I'm not on FB and won't be on it for the near future, so that's > not a good option for advertising to me. > Facebook is not the only way to learn of upcoming Telux activities. > > requiring people to RSVP probably won't work. > > Can't require, but you can always ask, so see if ANYONE is intending to > come. if more than 5 reply, you know you are good. if none reply you > may still get 5-10 people showing up, but you will know when you can > lower expectations (and buy less cookies) Good idea. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > I realise there are fluctuations. But like I said we've been on a > > negative trend. > > Now you know how I felt back in 2000... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il