[hackerspaces] BrainSeeker.org - new site from HTINK!

[Chris Weiss]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Eric Moore <eric at htink.org> wrote:
> goods, or craigslist, kinda sleezy. If we supported say google calendars,
> how do we maintain the location of the class? How do we tell the title from
> the subject from the location from any other metadata?

not sure about other cals, but google already has a separate date,
time, subject, location, and description fields.  Other metadata could
be added on your site.

I'm not advocating blind pulling all events from a google calendar, we
put up many that aren't classes and so dont' fall under the apparent
scope of BrainSeeker (or are they?), so I'd much rather see it be an
optional convenience feature: "enter URL to pull iCal event data from"
and then user fills in the rest.

> would also have to tell students "online ticketing is not available" so what
> if too many students show up?

I would *LOVE* to have that problem.  It's an easy one to fix.  and
for the free events, people don't tend to mind.  But yes, for paid
classes, a ticket/registration system really is important.