please notify a range of sites/online calendars of events

[djzort]

as per http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2012/10/please-publish-perl-events-on-the-lwnnet-calendar.html

it would be awesome if act could notify a range of sites and online calendars of upcoming events. at the most basic level send them an email from a template, or perhaps use an API or WWW::Mechanise to fill out a form.

on the above post, a number of sites are listed.

[maddingue]

To copy here all the site that were suggested, plus some more:

• http://www.yapceurope.org/events/timeline.html
• http://www.theperlreview.com/community_calendar
• http://lwn.net/Calendar/
• http://lanyrd.com/
• https://grical.org/
• http://www.heise.de/open/veranstaltungskalender/ for the German speaking people
• http://www.agendadulibre.org/ for the French speaking people

Act can be enhanced to use these sites' API.. when they have one. Unfortunately, most don't. Take Lanyrd, which makes quite some buzz; its API is "in the pipeline" since 2 years. Other than that, you can't add an event unless you are signed in from Twitter.
» http://lanyrd.com/help/faq/#data

LWN.net calendar has no API either, but it's an old-fashioned web site, with a non-Ajaxy web form, so it's easier to automate with WWW::Mechanize.

GriCal has a more complete form, but some fields uses JavaScript (coordinates) so they won't work, but they're not the most important ones so it should be ok.
» https://grical.org/e/new/

Heise veranstaltungskalender and Agenda du Libre also have web forms:
» http://www.heise.de/open/veranstaltungskalender/new_event/
» http://www.agendadulibre.org/submit.php

YAPC Europe site is generated from http://www.yapceurope.org/events/conferences.yml, which is currently maintained by BooK, who tries to follow when I add new conferences.

The Perl Review's community calendar is on Google Calendar. Don't think there's a way to automate that other tan sending a mail to brian d foy.

[reneeb]

I have access to the Perl Reviews calendar as well... I try to keep the calendar up to date.

When we have an easy access to update YEF's conferences.yml I'll write a cronjob that parses YAML and updates the Google Calendar with https://metacpan.org/module/Net::Google::Calendar.

Maybe this can be written as a Act! Plugin as well.

I publish the dates of the events on (most German speaking)

• http://perl-nachrichten.de (no API yet, but a simple web form)
• http://www.ostc.de/events.html (no API, I send them emails)
• http://xing.com (there's an API under development, don't know if we can publish events with that API)
• http://perl-community.de (no API)
• http://perlmongers.de (no API, but easy to automate)

Event dates should be posted on perlmonks as well

[book]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:12PM -0700, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:

YAPC Europe site is generated from
http://www.yapceurope.org/events/conferences.yml, which is currently
maintained by BooK, who tries to follow when I add new conferences.

Note that, as mentioned in a reply to Shlomi's post, my intention is
to put the YAPC Europe file on github, so that it can be maintained
by the community.

YEF's goal with the past conferences documents is for them to serve
as a reference for conference organizers.

Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

The worst curses in the world are boils, pestilence and having partners
(not necessarily in that order). (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #6 (Pacific))

[djzort]

'old fashioned' forms are arguably restful. just post the data and look for a 200 reply.

tweeting would be cool, but a notice plugin system would allow these things in an extendable way.

On 19/10/2012, at 6:30 PM, "Philippe Bruhat (BooK)" notifications@github.com wrote:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:12PM -0700, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:

YAPC Europe site is generated from
http://www.yapceurope.org/events/conferences.yml, which is currently
maintained by BooK, who tries to follow when I add new conferences.

Note that, as mentioned in a reply to Shlomi's post, my intention is
to put the YAPC Europe file on github, so that it can be maintained
by the community.

YEF's goal with the past conferences documents is for them to serve
as a reference for conference organizers.

Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

The worst curses in the world are boils, pestilence and having partners
(not necessarily in that order). (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #6 (Pacific))
—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[maddingue]

Dean Hamstead wrote:

'old fashioned' forms are arguably restful. just post the data and
look for a 200 reply.

Oh, sure. When I say "old fashioned", it actually is a compliment :)
I usually distrust all these JavaScript based forms that can silently
fail or just not work at all.

tweeting would be cool, but a notice plugin system would allow these
things in an extendable way.

Microblogging from Act is something I want to add since some time now,
but I lacked the knowledge of how Act works, and lacked the time.

However, I think notifying some sites to advertise about the conference
and microblogging are quite different matters: the first task is supposed
to be done once for all, while the microblog interface (along with the
news feed) is something that will be regularly used. Also, the data to
be sent are not the same.

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

[djzort]

you are right. though both features would be helpful to a event organizer and very helpful to the perl community.

perhaps also...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/opensource/events.jsp

http://technology-events.blogspot.com.au

On 19/10/2012, at 11:06 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni notifications@github.com wrote:

Dean Hamstead wrote:

'old fashioned' forms are arguably restful. just post the data and
look for a 200 reply.

Oh, sure. When I say "old fashioned", it actually is a compliment :)
I usually distrust all these JavaScript based forms that can silently
fail or just not work at all.

tweeting would be cool, but a notice plugin system would allow these
things in an extendable way.

Microblogging from Act is something I want to add since some time now,
but I lacked the knowledge of how Act works, and lacked the time.

However, I think notifying some sites to advertise about the conference
and microblogging are quite different matters: the first task is supposed
to be done once for all, while the microblog interface (along with the
news feed) is something that will be regularly used. Also, the data to
be sent are not the same.

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

Close the world, txEn eht nepO.
—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[book]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:30:39AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:12PM -0700, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:

YAPC Europe site is generated from
http://www.yapceurope.org/events/conferences.yml, which is currently
maintained by BooK, who tries to follow when I add new conferences.

Note that, as mentioned in a reply to Shlomi's post, my intention is
to put the YAPC Europe file on github, so that it can be maintained
by the community.

YEF's goal with the past conferences documents is for them to serve
as a reference for conference organizers.

The first step is already done: https://github.com/yapceurope/perl-events

Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

Too many believe only in the belief.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #58 (Epic))