An obvious work-round is to provide a link to the calendar, rather
than embedding it.

A link requires action by the user, so presumably counts as giving
consent, (as long as the destination of the link is clear).

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 14:14, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
>
> events.apache.org <http://events.apache.org/> is where we list upcoming 
> events - both primary ASF events (Community Over Code) and project events 
> (Pulsar Summit, eg) that have been approved by Trademarks and ComDev.
>
> This site is backed by a Google Calendar, which is maintained by myself, Mark 
> Thomas, and a handful of other people.
>
> Due to changes in policy (I’m honestly completely unclear whether this is ASF 
> policy, Google policy, or something else) the calendar page - 
> https://events.apache.org/event/calendar.html - no longer works. There is a 
> thread discussing this, and possible remediation, over on the 
> plann...@apachecon.com <mailto:plann...@apachecon.com> list - 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/14v10tfbrjb50m21skl2mn1bgf6tj6go - but I’m 
> really not sure how to proceed from here.
>
> I see two possible solutions here:
>
> 1) We move the calendar to something that doesn’t involve a third-party 
> provider. This strikes me as the best option - we own the data, and have some 
> method of displaying that data that doesn’t rely on anyone else. There used 
> to be a *ton* of open source calendaring solutions that we could host on our 
> site. (I, myself, used to maintain a Perl CGI calendar called WebCal, way 
> back in the late 1900s.) I would appreciate someone stepping up to find, 
> evaluate, and recommend an option here that we can put into the events site.
>
> 2) Try to jump through the various hoops to get Google Cal working again. 
> This does *not* feel like the right approach, to me, since it seems that we’d 
> just be kicking the can down the road a while longer until yet another 
> privacy policy bites us.
>
> The events site is in Git here: https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site
>
> Is anyone available/willing to help with this work?
>
> —
> Rich Bowen
> rbo...@rcbowen.com
>
>
>
>

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