[okfn-discuss] Calendar

Mon Jan 30 13:19:49 UTC 2006

So to summarize I think the feeling is we should go with drupal and/or 
upcoming.org. My only reservation about upcoming.org is that it is not 
open and just been snaffled by yahoo and I never liked investing time 
and effort in something that has the potential to lock me in.

However Looking at the drupal event api what's good is that not only 
does it support upcoming.org's REST interface but it can use it to talk 
to other drupal sites (BTW Tom I couldn't work out from 
http://drupal.org/node/27953 whether this module is complete or not -- 
you seemed to be implying it needs sponsoring in order to be complete).

Anyway I've now installed the drupal event module on 
http://drn.okfn.org/ so you can check it out to see what it is like. 
Unfortunately all the upcoming support seems to be in drupal >= 4.6 and 
okfn is currently running 4.5 (the stable debian version).

~rufus

Tom Chance wrote:
> Ahoy,
> 
> I've been looking at upcoming properly for the first time today, maybe you 
> should check it out again? It has:
> - tags with RSS feeds
> - metadata for venue & group, both with RSS feeds
> - an API that Drupal almost supports
> 
> Even the RSS feeds would be great, so we could have an 'upcoming FC-UK events' 
> bit on the (soon to be revamped) FC-UK site. Handy :)
> 
> Since it seems, to somebody out of touch with all this web2.0 whizzyness, more 
> popular than the others you mention I would have thought it would be more 
> likely to be well maintained, and for other CMSs to have decent support for 
> the API?
> 
> Anyway, if somebody has really strong feelings for a particular solution I'm 
> happy to be swayed. But a 15 minute play and a readup on Drupal support makes 
> me think that upcoming would be a good option. If we could secure some 
> funding to get the Drupal upcoming module fixed up (Rufus? any ideas) I'd be 
> sold.
> 
> Then I could start entering events myself in the naive hope that others will 
> follow ;-)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:37, Jo Walsh wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:09:30PM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>>>upcoming.org/eventful.com/evnt.org
>>
>>upcoming has terrible metadata, and was eaten by Yahoo! recently
>>(so perhaps the latter will change the former)
>>
>>i kind of like evnt.org, i spent a little time last year writing
>>libraries to talk to its *incredibly badly documented* RESTful API.
>>but i stopped using http://evnt.org/zool/ after a while. i see a core
>>of people are still using it though, i am not sure the group that set
>>it up (with arts council sponsorship) are still actively running it.
>>
>>It has the nice low-impact thing of being 'taggable' and emitting
>>decent XML feeds of stuff (append '/_xcal' to the end of event URLS,
>>and there are inbox/index feeds).
>>
>>In *theory* it is open source, in practise i don't know if there is a
>>package release (is python / quixote / cheetah / mysql based) or even
>>public details for its svn repos. I wrote an RSS/RDF aggregator
>>component for it which never got used, but that is where it was heading.
>>
>>There's a pile of links about its innards halfway down
>>http://wiki.wirelesslondon.info/NodelSoftArchitecture
>>
>>ugh wiki comment spam :/
>>
>>-jo
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