Shirish, I'm not sure I've understood what you are really looking for, hence asking for some clarifications inline:
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, shirish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 16:56, Navin Kabra<[email protected]> wrote: > > <snipped> > > Hi Navin, > > > There's already a calendar for tech events in Pune at upcoming.org. See > > http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/5007/ > > It has facilities for automated notifications. > > Right. But it also needs that I be a yahoo user. :( > It doesn't require a login to view the events. It does not require a login to subscribe to events. It does require a login to add events - and that is a good thing. Any online shared service is going to require some login/password or some other sort of authentication mechanism to prevent the spammers and trolls from taking over. If there is an alternative that doesn't require that, I'd be interested in exploring that. Please suggest. (plug.org.in also does the same thing.) > <rant> > From my perspective, the way I see these kind of services as an > island. I don't see why you say that http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/5007/ is an island. Anyone can join. Anyone can add events. Would you say wikipedia is an island? > What I'm looking for say, subscribing to your calendar and you > perhaps to mine. I'm not sure I understand you - but are you suggesting that we all maintain our own separate calendars and then subscribe to each other's calendars like we subscribe to blogs? I can see that as having value, but in addition there is also a different value in having a common, shared calendar that an average techie just wants to subscribe to. If you're talking about having separate calendars for separate purposes (i.e. one for tech events in pune, one for FOSS, one for python events), then that can already be done at upcoming. And events can be shared across calendars (need to be added only once). And people can subscribe - to individual calendars, or to tags, or to locations, or a bunch of other things. > Why are we still stuck in the domain thing. > I have no clue what this means. What "domain thing"? > The way I would have liked is to be able to subscribe to say Pune > Tech's calendar and in turn Pune Tech could subscribe to my FOSS > calendar (or public calendar or whatever I wanted to share. ) This > would have been so much nicer, easier and happier for both of us. > Already possible with incoming. In anycase, the "Pune Tech calendar on incoming" is not one user. It is 45 people who are interested in keeping track of tech events in Pune. So, what exactly do you mean by "Pune Tech could subscribe"? Are you talking about the online shared calendar merging with another online calendar or are you talking about me as a user subscribing to your calendar? > Also if you make the effort of calendaring and want to credit, there > could be a small logo which is along with the event which I could > forward if & when I forward the event to somebody. > Forget credit. Let us figure out a system that is usable and meets people's needs. I don't think anybody in this space is particularly interested in credit. What I would like is the existence of an easy to use calendar, a one-stop-shop for all tech events in Pune. Something that an average techie can subscribe to easily, and that's it - s/he gets info about all the events. > That would be cool. If somebody wants to works on it they could > probably use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar as a starter. > > As always feedback is appreciated. > I'd like to understand what your problem with incoming is, so what we can figure out what the solution is. navin. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
