[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Calendar

[Kelly]

> I'd previously thought looked like the best option, and realized that it
> can only consume ical data - it cannot produce it.

(facepalm)

> A number of people (myself included) do not want something that pulls
> _from_ Google (and requires people to use Google to edit it); instead,
> we want something that Google can pull from, so that people using Google
> Calendar can subscribe to our feed (generated from data on the wiki).

Yeah, at this point the only good reason to have the google cal is to
have the ical feed. We don't need the google cal if we have our own
interface.  I think locally hosting our own data is always preferable,
as long as someone is willing to take care of its upkeep.

Basically that leaves you Ian. You're our one great hope.  How can I
help you? I only know UI / front end coding.

-K

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:
> Good news: I upgraded our MediaWiki install last night, so we can
> install whatever extension(s) we want now.
>
> Bad news: I looked a bit closer at the Kenyu73 calendar extension, which
> I'd previously thought looked like the best option, and realized that it
> can only consume ical data - it cannot produce it.
>
> On 01/20/2010 06:35 PM, Dougie wrote:
>> http://caldav.calconnect.org/
>>
>> It is simple to export the data from the Google calendar in a compatible CalDAV file, which can be imported into any compatible server.  The source code, and libraries are listed in the above link.
>>
>> Just sayin'...
>
> A number of people (myself included) do not want something that pulls
> _from_ Google (and requires people to use Google to edit it); instead,
> we want something that Google can pull from, so that people using Google
> Calendar can subscribe to our feed (generated from data on the wiki).
>
>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Ian Atha wrote:
>>> I looked at some existing opensource solutions and none of it seems to do what we want it to. I am writing a plugin that will parse a spceially formated page stored on the existing Wiki and will generate an iCal feed.
>
> Awesome! Is this something you expect to have working soon? Amazingly,
> of all the calendar extensions which I've seen[*], few can produce ical
> and none of those that do do it simply. If you make one that does, I
> suspect many other sites would use it too.
>
> *: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Calendar
>
> ~leif
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