On 2009-02-24, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, thank you, Eric. And thank you for the website, and thank you to > David P. for his contributions to the site, as well. > > Now, you're welcome for the invitations, but let's see whether the > reminders work before we get _too_ carried away. :-)
Eh. They work if people use them. You have to add them to your own calendar and then have them turned on, in your own calendar. Most people aren't as digital as we are. Google Calendar is a thing of great promise that doesn't deliver yet as well as it might (unless you're using Apple iCalendar on Leopard or Mozilla Sunbird, and aren't afraid of getting your digital hands a little dirty). For example, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way* to get it to give out with an iCal feed, which would make it really convenient for integrating with the website. (If it did, we could create items on the Google calendar and have them automagically create stories on the website, to which we could attach reports, powerpoints, photos of people holding up forked-fingers behind Nancy's head...). -- *There's almost always a way to get from one standards-compliant web services interface (e.g., CalDAV from/to Google Calendar) to another (the simpler iCal as a mere feed), but it usually seems to involve Ruby scripting. I have a book on that. One of these days I'll actually start working through it.... On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Jonathan Sherwood > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd just like to thank David for these invitations. It's extremely > useful. > > Also thanks to Eric for setting up the R-SPEC Google calendar. > > > > -- > > Jonathan Sherwood > > Sr. Science & Technology Press Officer > > University of Rochester > > 585-273-4726 > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association, you are > invited > >> to > >> > >> Nancy Kress Reading > >> > >> Thu Feb 26 7pm – 8pm > >> (Timezone: Eastern Time) > >> Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St., Brockport, NY (map) > >> Calendar: R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association > >> > >> Owner/Creator: [email protected] > >> Other attendees: [email protected] > >> Mail creator & attendees > >> > >> Acclaimed local author Nancy Kress will be reading at the Lift Bridge > Book > >> Shop, 45 Main Street, Brockport, New York, at 7pm on Thursday, 26 > February > >> 2009. > >> > >> Map and Directions to Lift Bridge Book Shop: > http://tinyurl.com/LiftBridge > >> Lift Bridge Book Shop Home Page: > >> http://liftbridge.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp > >> More event details» > >> > >> Will you attend? > >> Yes |Maybe |No > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
