[GLLUG] tentative schedule

Thomas Hruska thruska at cubiclesoft.com
Thu Aug 10 15:22:38 EDT 2006


Charles Ulrich wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> is there a copy of the upcoming schedule on gllug.org 
>> <http://gllug.org> (besides list archives). if not maybe one could get 
>> put up? also maybe allow it to sign people up for demo's? or even add 
>> something they want to do and when?
> 
> Funny you ask. I've been trying to come up a better way of managing the 
> meeting schedule. In particular, I am hoping to achieve two goals:
> 
> 1) Allow visitors to easily review upcoming meetings, and
> 
> 2) Have meeting announcements get posted automatically to the mailing 
> list and website.
> 
> Well, I had a bit of spare time last night and implemented #1 in the 
> form of an embedded Google calendar. Check out the website and click 
> "Calendar" in the list of links on the left-hand side of the page. Note 
> that I haven't gotten the complete schedule online yet.
> 
> Unfortunately, it isn't perfect... the Agenda view makes the most sense, 
> but the bloody thing only shows events occuring in the next 30 days even 
> when there's plenty of room to list more.
> 
> On the upside, it comes with a few cool features... Visitors with their 
> own Google calendar can add the GLLUG calendar to their account. There's 
> an RSS link to keep track of upcoming events in one's own favorite feed 
> reader, and there's also a link to subscribe to the calendar with any 
> scheduling application that understands iCal. (To my knowledge, the iCal 
> thing works like RSS but with calendars specifically in mind.) The 
> Google calendar does have a way to send email notifications, but I 
> haven't tested it yet.
> 
> To address your other idea, allowing others to add events directly to 
> the site, I'm not sure if that would be a good idea. We don't want 
> events and things popping up on the calendar and catching somebody 
> (notably, me) by surprise.

Not to mention, spammers love public event calendars.  You get some, uh, 
surprising events showing up.

A slightly modified Google IG calendar that allows you to RSVP for the 
weekly events would be really cool.  That way you could collect a more 
accurate tally of attendees and would be as simple as checking a checkbox.

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