On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Thom Shannon wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a way to join the huge network of user
groups out there and make it easier to find user groups in your
area. The obvious solution would be to create a website where
people go and add their group. I can't imagine if I setup such a
site the take up would be that huge, plus the data would quickly
get stale.
So I had the idea of promoting some sort of microformat convention,
such as creating an hCard for user groups and vCard for the meeting
events, then tagging all of those with something like "usergroup".
Then you could use technorati to search all the microformats with
that tag, and at some point you'll be able to filter them my area,
I may end up writing that "mashup" myself. It will also tap into
all the data on sites like upcoming.org. My problem is that I'm not
sure how to come up with the right convention to start promoting,
is a tag like "usergroup" a good idea? There are very few examples
of people using it, but I can't find anything else specific that's
used much.
Please at least search the wiki before proposing a new format. A
simple search for 'group' brings up:
http://microformats.org/wiki/group-brainstorming
http://microformats.org/wiki/group-examples
There's also prior art in
http://hellonline.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/XMF
Thanks,
ryan
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Ryan King
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