[Dclug] DCLUG meeting reminder: Today, Wed Oct 20, 7pm: Rob Pegoraro @ Washington Post on mistakes in press coverage of FOSS

[Andrew Conklin]

It'll be a great idea under the circumstances (at least initially! since
we'll both be proof reading your first ics file upload). Worst case, we give
Ross Karchner's new EventGrinder website (which powers DC Tech Events) a run
for its money in iCal feed bug detection.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:51 AM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:

> In case anything goes wrong, there are plenty
> of witnesses that Andrew suggested
> doing this :-)
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Andrew Conklin <andrewconklin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm glad to see we have a discussion going about this.  One idea is to
> > create a new plain text file on the web server, title it something like
> > "basic.ics", then place the following tags and values within it.
> >
> > BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> > VERSION:2.0
> > PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
> > BEGIN:VEVENT
> > UID:uid1 at example.com <UID%3Auid1 at example.com>
> > DTSTAMP:19970714T170000Z
> > ORGANIZER;CN=John Doe:MAILTO:john.doe at example.com
> > DTSTART:19970714T170000Z
> > DTEND:19970715T035959Z
> > SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
> > DESCRIPTION: A French National holiday celebrating the storming of the
> > Bastille fortress-prison in 1789.
> > END:VEVENT
> > END:VCALENDAR
> > From there, we can add additional VEVENT tags and clean up out of
> > date events by removing them.  Jerry, if you're willing to keep this file
> up
> > to date, I think that makes for a good short term solution.  It will be
> > really easy to syndicate this feed.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm manually going into the html and adding announcements,
> >> and yes, it's the retro vintage site design I inherited back in 2002 or
> >> so,
> >> with a few additions, Library, multimedia, graphics, photos, video, etc
> >> added to the menu items..
> >>
> >> and the meeting bytes are aging badly, nested tables of tables,
> >> so deep, I've asked for help with them a couple of times,
> >> but mostly just adding a year of announcements
> >> with some carry over.
> >>
> >> I'm using <hr> between announcements
> >> and looked a long time ago at trying to create
> >> a database of announcments, as it comes up
> >> fairly often, "Remember that talk about x,
> >> by y?" "Or didn't someone talk about z?"
> >>  and need to find something about it.
> >>
> >> <hr> may be a good programmable way of
> >> chopping them up, at least for the more recent
> >> ones...
> >> Parsing and pulling fields of speaker, etc more difficult..
> >>
> >> 190 or so talks, and the data is getting thick.
> >>
> >> (not sure if the cancelled ones during the summer
> >> changed ordinal numbering, przemek?)
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric at zhevny.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:37:13AM -0400, Andrew Conklin wrote:
> >> >> Hi Przemek,
> >> >>
> >> >> Does DCLUG have an RSS or iCal feed monthly meetings?  If not, can we
> >> >> get one
> >> >> going?  If that feed is updated by DCLUG, I can get that information
> >> >> circulated
> >> >> automatically through DC ACM and DC Tech Events. Previously, William
> >> >> Fielder
> >> >> did a good job of manually posting your events on DC ACM's calendar
> for
> >> >> a few
> >> >> years.  I'm not so good at keeping up with it.  Let me know what you
> >> >> think
> >> >> about the prospect.
> >> >
> >> > Jerry, what is it you do when you post the meeting announcements to
> the
> >> > dclug site? Are you just editing an dclug_home.html directly, or is
> >> > there
> >> > something more sophisticated going on?
> >> >
> >> > Just based on a brief glance, it looks like dclug.tux.org is still
> using
> >> > the same old site donfede (iirc) cooked up many years ago. Would
> anyone
> >> > be interested in a django (or other framework) based reworking of the
> >> > site?
> >> >
> >> > The point being that with many frameworks we could make it so that one
> >> > meeting announcement text gets rendered to: list, website,
> >> > rss/atom/foo_feed, iCal, etc.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Of course, that would take a bit of doing and maybe there is some more
> >> > expedient solution to put Andrew's suggestion into effect.
> >> >
> >> > -edrz
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jerry W
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jerry W
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