[okfn-discuss] Calendar

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

Actually, using upcoming.org might be a good idea. Somebody started work on 
integrating their API with Drupal, so that a network of Drupal web sites 
could share events without us having to put new data into new calendars, and 
upcoming.org users could add events to those sites:

http://drupal.org/node/27953

If somebody were sponsored to finish the upcoming.org module off and we set-up 
a Drupal 4.7 web site up when version 4.7 comes out then this could work very 
nicely. Remix Commons / Reading are already running 4.7beta so if the module 
worked we could take advantage of this as soon as the module was finished.

Regards,
Tom

On Thursday 26 January 2006 13:09, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> This is a really good idea Tom. It has been discussed several times and
> even recently Andrea wrote to me about it. The problem always seems to
> be the question of centralization as well as who maintains it. The best
> solution would be some method of aggregation but there is no
> well-defined metadata system I know of that allows you to do this (you
> can aggregate blog posts but they will appear in order posted not when
> the event is occuring -- there is no easy way AFAIK extract the date the
> event is happening on).
>
> Andrea recently mentioned this issue recently as well and pointed at
> dedicated sites such as:
>
> upcoming.org/eventful.com/evnt.org
>
> The alternative, which you mention, is to install our own event system
> using Drupal (or something else) which we then just update with events
> we want to be there. OKFN already has a drupal installation running the
> DRN news/info site:
>
> http://drn.okfn.org/
>
> It is using of the debian stable branch of drupal (4.5.x i think) and I
> can easily give you ssh access if you would like to have a go at
> installing  modules (if you sign up to DRN I can also make you an admin
> if you are not already).
>
> ~rufus
>
> Tom Chance wrote:
> > Ahoy,
> >
> > Partly for my sanity, partly for enthusiastic people outside the heady
> > heights of the elect, partly for a free culture newsletter I'm putting
> > together with various people...
> >
> > Can we have, or is there already, a Mother Of All Calendars?
> >
> > Something to hold dates for every free information-type public event
> > going on in the UK, optionally the ability to categorise and filter out
> > things you don't want. Lots of trusted people would need access to add
> > their events. I think it would be really handy to have something like
> > this for all OKFN groups and beyond (ORG, FFII-UK, etc.)
> >
> > I had a quick look around for candidate software. There's Drupal's event
> > module, since I know Rufus uses Drupal for a few OKFN sites. I also found
> > Plans (www.planscalendar.com) though we'd have to make do with the icons
> > for categorisation.
> >
> > If there's interest in this, and Rufus gives me the appropriate
> > permissions & instructions, I'm happy to spend an afternoon setting one
> > up.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom

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