Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Jan 19 09:40:25 EST 2007


On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:31 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> There are also dedicated calendaring applications.  One that seems  
> to have the attention of people who really care about calendars is  
> bedework:
>
>   http://www.bedework.org/bedework/update.do?artcenterkey=10
>
> It might be overkill but tracking the latest calendaring standards  
> is what gets them excited.

Well, we're at the "what the heck do we need?" point, so finding out  
what the zealots are using can be informative. It looks like Bedework  
supports formats I hadn't even thought of, with XML.XSLT, RSS, CalDev  
and iCalendar. "Departmental" calendars might let each chapter have  
their own calendar with the own "skins" on their own web sites and  
have a rolled-up version on the GNHLUG front page.

Ben's punchlist would be awesome. I suspect there might be two apps  
or more in there:

1. The Nag-O-Matic that reminds each coordinator to announce the  
meeting, confirm the location, speaker, topic, etc., get the  
announcements out to the media, re-confirm the speaker and the  
location, re-announce the meeting, etc...

2. Display a pretty calendar in all the formats that we can publish  
and to which our users can subscribe, whatever those are - iCal,  
vCal, Ics, hCalendar, etc...


Ted Roche
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