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Upcoming Community Events
Oct. 16th, 2014 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jarandhelA little change for upcoming community events over on AnOtherWiki that I think is going to be very interesting and useful for everyone: you can now subscribe to upcoming events in iCal, Google Calendar, or other programs which accept iCal feeds using this url.
This is step one. Step two is getting each individual event its own feed so that people can subscribe to just the events which are local to them and which they are interested in. That's going to take a bit more planning, since at this time Google Calendar can't work with the long urls by which Semantic Mediawiki's iCal export is generated and there is no easy way to automate the use of tinyurl for each new event. It may simply need to be done manually. I've already set up one for the Northern Virginia Otherkin Meetup as a test, and it's working perfectly, but I'm exploring options to see if we can automate it somehow before doing them all by hand.
The iCal export only covers events happening in the next 60 days at this time. If you know of any community events happening in that time period which don't appear on it, please let me know. Or, better yet, add them to the wiki yourself! They'll be added to the events calendar and list of upcoming community events automatically.
This is step one. Step two is getting each individual event its own feed so that people can subscribe to just the events which are local to them and which they are interested in. That's going to take a bit more planning, since at this time Google Calendar can't work with the long urls by which Semantic Mediawiki's iCal export is generated and there is no easy way to automate the use of tinyurl for each new event. It may simply need to be done manually. I've already set up one for the Northern Virginia Otherkin Meetup as a test, and it's working perfectly, but I'm exploring options to see if we can automate it somehow before doing them all by hand.
The iCal export only covers events happening in the next 60 days at this time. If you know of any community events happening in that time period which don't appear on it, please let me know. Or, better yet, add them to the wiki yourself! They'll be added to the events calendar and list of upcoming community events automatically.
