Re: [SLUG] [PIG] ICal feed for SLUG meetings

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylan@hardison.net)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2007 - 19:14:32 EST


Spake Paul M Foster on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 07:22PM -0500:
> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> >I was bored at lunch the other day, so there is now an ICal file listing
> >all the SLUG meetings. The script is a great hack and parses paul's
> >meeting accouncements and also figures out who the meeting coordinator
> >is by examining the SLUG website.
> >
> >I dunno how useful this is, as I use wyrd + remind for my calendaring...
> >But someone that uses apple's ical or good calendar or kde's calendar
> >might find it useful.
>
> Ah, kewl. I use remind as well. Incredible program. If you're
> interested, I have a couple of PHP scripts which use remind to build a
> HTML calendar that displays in your browser. (TkRemind sucks, and I'm
> not all that fond of Wyrd, though it's a good program.) One of the
> scripts allows you to edit or add events to the calendar easily, even
> specifying which reminder file (I use several) in which to insert the
> events. I'll send them to you, if you like.

Sure, it'd be useful to html-ize my calendar. I like rem2ps as well --
when I have access to a printer, anyway...

> In fact, I have a specific reminder (.reminders.meetings) file which
> details all the meetings for the next year, if you'd like that. It can
> be called from your main reminder file with an INCLUDE directive. (Some
> meetings, like Dunedin, don't work with a straight "4th Saturday" event,
> and so have to be detailed individually.)

with that, I could generate the .ics file and do a lot of other
interesting things. Actually, you should publish that file on the
website.

I also seperate my reminders file into seperate included files.

> >
> >http://hardison.net/slug/rss/slug.ics
> >
> >If someone wants to process it into another format, the processed data
> >is available in a YAML file:
> >
> >http://hardison.net/slug/rss/cal.yml
> >
>
> Nice work. It looks like these just detail the meetings in the meeting
> announcement only. It might be useful to parse the meeting calendar on
> the website to get all the meetings. In fact, I've always wanted to take
> the time to work out how to automatically generate the meeting
> announcements based on some data file. I normally hand edit them every
> week. I do have a tab delimited data file that generates the calendar on
> the website, but not the meeting announcements.

Well, I could probably script something that parses the output of
remind, and sends out the email.
Then you'd just have to maintain that reminders.meetings
file.

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