Calendar

Goal

Maintain a calendar for interesting events involving the Fellowship, Fellowship groups, Fellows...

Coordinator

• cri

People

• cri

• pboddie

Volunteers are always welcome! Have a look at FellowshipHacks to know how you can help

Status

We have implemented the calendar in the wiki at FellowshipEvents

Last updated: 091102

Tasks

This is an overview of the tasks to do for the completion of the project.

• Tell Fellows and Fellowship groups to use the calendar and help them
• Advertise the Events page and the related RSS feed

  • http://fellowship.fsfe.org/events

  • http://fellowship.fsfe.org/events.rss

Here are some tasks found in the Wiki for this project:

You can create a page for a new task using the button below. Just enter the name for the page and it will be automatically created as a subpage of this project page.

Current setup information

The current calendar is implemented using the EventAggregator by our Fellow pboddie

Complete documentation for it is available at:

• HelpOnEventAggregator: main documentation

• HelpOnEventAggregatorNewEvent: creating event pages using a web form

• HelpOnEventAggregatorSummary: exporting to iCalendar or RSS

Old working notes

Requirements

Important:

• Event submission
  • Fellows should be allowed to submit events in the easiest way (e.g. a web form)
  • An event submission policy should be implemented
    • E.g. submission from Fellows get automatically published; anonymous submissions must be approved
• Output
  • It must be possible to export events as RSS feed (to include them in other sites) and maybe also as iCal (to include them in personal calendaring applications)

Nice to have:

• Import external events (as RSS feed and/or iCal)

  • Please note that to import the current FSFE events from http://fsfe.org/events/events.en.html we should also set up a custom RSS feed (the current one only has title and description elements)

• Output
  • Events where FSFE will be present should be highlighted

Possible solutions

• Moinmoin-based solutions

  • pboddie: the EventAggregator MoinMoin macro (producing calendar views) and action (producing iCalendar and RSS 2.0 output)

    • http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/EventAggregator

    • This is now installed on the wiki: test it at FellowshipEvents

      • See instructions at: HelpOnEventAggregator

  • Moinmoin internal monthcalendar macro: http://www.moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros/MonthCalendar

    • No iCal / RSS export

  • Plugin for "event calendar": http://www.moinmo.in/MacroMarket/EventCalendar

    • Not yet tested

  • Plugin for including calendar pages in wiki pages: http://www.moinmo.in/MacroMarket/IncludeCalendarPage

    • Not yet tested

  • Plugin for generating iCal: http://www.moinmo.in/ActionMarket/IcsProducer

    • Not yet tested
    • Seems quite experimental
• Wordpress-based solutions
  • There are many wordpress event/calendar plugins, e.g.

    • http://wordpressgarage.com/plugins/wordpress-calendar-plugins/

    • http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/

    • http://wpcal.firetree.net/

    • ...

  • cri: I guess they are intended for personal use; we should check if they can be used to set up a shared Fellowship calendar (i.e. all Fellows should be allowed to add events)

    • Note: we can create ad-hoc blog for this, like blogs.fsfe.org/events...
• Other calendaring solutions?
  • There are lots of them, but maybe we should first test plugins for our existing components (moinmoin, wordpress)
  • If we have to add an ad-hoc solution, it must support LDAP authentication

Some calendar examples

• http://lwn.net/Calendar/

• http://www.prolinux.de/cgi-bin/plcal/index.cgi

• http://www.guckes.net/cal/

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