Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

[Ted Roche]

Overheard at a recent LUG meeting: "And we need a real calendar, too!"

This is a call for Requests for Ideas, Volunteers and Naysayers  
(since they'll appear anyway, and bring some reasonable objections,  
too).

www.gnhlug.org's main page lists the who, what, where, when of  
upcoming meetings, with links to details about the groups,  
announcements and notes of past meetings, in a fairly compact if  
uninspired format.

Google also maintains a calendar of the "regular" dates you can see  
at [1]. There's an email announce list. (Is there an archive of the  
announce list?)  What would members actually take advantage of? RSS  
feeds of announce? An iCal/vCal enabled feed that automatically feed  
announcements right into your calendar?

New technology with microformats [2] makes everything not only  
possible, but fairly easy to implement in RFC-compatible ways.

Question #1: Is there a need for this?
Question #2: If so, what format?

I know all of the technology is out there. (I've even implemented  
portions of it on occasion.) My question is not of feasibility, but  
of compelling interest. Can anyone think of a "killer app" reason  
that they would want this?

[1] http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Main/TedRoche
[2] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

Ted Roche
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