[hackerspaces] list of events

[webmind]

Matt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 16:50 -0500, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
>> I'm not quite seeing what the use case for this is.  Why not just point
>> to the calendars run by the individual spaces?  Then we don't have to
>> worry about who uses Mediawiki and who uses Google Calendar and who
>> scratches dates on a slate tablet :)
> 
> After talking with ruebezahl in #hackerspaces. I propose there just be a
> |calendar= property (or |ics=) on the hackerspaces template for spaces
> to say where their ICS formatted feed lives. The ICS format has
> provisions for lat/long. There needs to be a script or something
> aggregating all of these events from the spaces into a database. Another
> web facing script could then allow searches based on a point and a
> radius and export those results into an ICS format as well. This
> shouldn't be that difficult to setup, and allows the spaces to use
> whatever they want for managing their calendars. I have yet to use a
> calendar client that doesn't have ICS support.
> 

This sounds like a good idea. Asuming you want a central event
interface. I don't think people are going to manage multiple places to
enter their events. It's hard enough to manage your own
calendar/upcoming-events-list already.
Anything that needs to work on such a level should be aggregating or
re-directing, Be it calendars, blogs, etc.
IMHO.

Webmind


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