Second Life events are ideal for iCalendar / hCalendar because their
locations tend to be simple spots on a grid within SL ("IslandName
(129,104)" for example), and such text strings fit well into a
"Location:" field.
But real-world public events at venues you may have never heard of
tend not to fare so well, as the world isn't very careful about how it
populates "Location:" fields when describing a venue (that has a name,
a street address, a city, a state or province, a country, a lat/long,
a phone number, a URL, a photo, etc.)
- Brian
On 10 Jun 2008, at 17:52, SignpostMarv Martin wrote:
Chuck Norris wrote:
It's something we've considered, but the last time we looked at it,
very few people in the world were supporting hCalendar, and it
didn't seem to be gaining steam. And those who /were/ supporting
it were all over the map with how they handled venues.
Eventful event supported hCalendar at one point, but I believe
that's been lost with a recent site redesign.
It's been a while since we've looked at it, though. Do you have
any favorite sites using hCalendar?
Chuck
On Jun 10, 2008, at 2:34 PM, SignpostMarv Martin wrote:
I'm currently implementing it as part of my sw.slr project
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:SignpostMarv_Martin/sw.slr
hCalendar is used on the (90% complete, Atom & iCal support yet to
be added) semantic events listings http://svc.sl.net.marvulous.co.uk/event/1399
It's also used on the rezdays calendar, which is also available in
Atom and iCal: http://svc.sl.net.marvulous.co.uk/rezdays.html http://svc.sl.net.marvulous.co.uk/rezdays.atom
http://svc.sl.net.marvulous.co.uk/rezdays.ics
With the current rewrite I'm working towards, I'll be adding OOP
support for OpenSim data sources, which would (assuming it was
adopted :-P ) expand the number of sites implementing microformats,
of which hCalendar is only one. http://opensimulator.org/
On a related note, I'll also be working on the eventful-compatible
server software so peeps can grab the SL data using the same client
interface libraries as they use for eventful.com :-P
~ Marv.
p.s. I can't remember whether I enquired about the eventful-
compatible server stuff on the mailing list or in private email, as
it was a while ago :-P
