Re: Proper Web Calendar [Was: GNOME 2.7/2.8 Proposed Schedule]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 17:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Tuomas Kuosmanen">
> 
> > On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 13:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > >  [2] webcal://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/schedule.ics
> > 
> > Would it be useful to have a always-constant-url webcalendar? 
> > 
> > So that one could add it to Evolution once and it would always be on the
> > same url and be updated to whatever is happening in the release and
> > conference lands. Or whatever else people find important. "All Things
> > Gnome" -webcal would rule.
> > 
> > Just my thoughts - I love the webcal stuff, someone writes stuff down
> > once, and it shows up on everyones calendar without extra effort. Yum.
> 
> Not right at the moment, because to do it properly, you have to write the
> ics file yourself (Evolution loves timezones too much, and rightly so).
> 
> However, I have a proper, editable calendar tool in the works at the moment,
> which will allow us to have a subscribeable master calendar *and* categories
> (such as "Release Team", "GNOME Conferences", "Tech Conferences", "GNOME
> Historical Days", etc) without a lot of manual labour.
> 
cool! Does that tool use the e-d-s API? If not, that would make it
easier, since you'll have access to all timezones, etc. Although I guess
the best is to use UTC times always on that calendar.

cheers