On 4/12/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Two separate projects: the Lug-nag-o-matic is a little cron job that annoys coordinators. I think the trick is how to get it to recognize when an announcement has been sent so it won't bother nagging coordinators keeping ahead of the nags.
See my recent message to Bill McG in one of these threads. Basically, by using a calendar program, we should be able to use the "reoccurring event" and "exceptions to reoccurring event" features to handle that.
I think a script that parses the "Upcoming Events" table on the front page of gnhlug.org into an iCal/vCal/RSS/XML-whatever format for calendars to import/subscribe is pretty feasible.
I think it would be even easier to go the other way: Start with the data in the calendar. Any decent calendar can already generate iCal and vCal. RSS is not as universal, but still widely adopted. Likewise, some calendars already have the ability to generate reminders into email. A web page include should work for the homepage (like what you did with Google Calendar on your TWiki user page). I really do think most of the work, here, has already been done. We just have to figure out which calendar software meets our needs best. And then find someone to install it... /me looks around furtively
And while it has all that data available, an email each Monday morning summarizing the meetings and providing links isn't all that hard. Hmmm....
Exactly. :) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
