[clug] More testing: Calendar feeds

[Adam Baxter]

Thanks Blaz. Looks like
http://icalx.com/public/blazs11/CLUG_(Canberra_Linux_User_Group).ics
works fine and is linked to my Google Calendar fine. I'm a little
hesitant to test SMS reminders as I have a feeling Optus will want 50
cents a pop.

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Adam Baxter <voltagex at voltagex.org> wrote:
> Feel free to add it to the wiki. When I have access to something more
> than an underpowered VPS, there's no reason we couldn't generate the
> ics file ourselves, even parsing the list for certain senders/topics
> is possible.
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Blaz Segavac <blazs at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> I have been hosting a CLUG calendar for a while via iCalx at the following location webcal://icalx.com/public/blazs11/CLUG_(Canberra_Linux_User_Group).ics.  I do recall sending information about hosting the calendar to the CLUG list at some stage but I have no idea of how many people from the list have actually subscribed to the calendar.
>>
>> The calendar by default has the CLUG and PSIG meeting times and locations, and also the information about the respective meeting if I see anything mentioned on the mailing list.  Other events such as install fests and conferences are added if I am aware of them.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blaz
>>
>>
>> On 22/05/2010, at 11:13, Adam Baxter wrote:
>>
>>> Try this:
>>> XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/voltagex.org_tinbclkfu2lhguuq955e5gu77o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
>>> (RSS reader, some calendar software)
>>>
>>> iCal: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/voltagex.org_tinbclkfu2lhguuq955e5gu77o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
>>> (Shiny white phones designed in California, Microsoft calendar
>>> software, most other smartphones)
>>>
>>> HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/voltagex.org/embed?src=voltagex.org_tinbclkfu2lhguuq955e5gu77o%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney
>>> (Browsers, I guess)
>>>
>>> I reckon we could host this kind of thing ourselves, I'm just being
>>> lazy right now and letting Google do the work.
>>>
>>> For those of you who are interested, Google Calendar supports email
>>> *and* SMS notification, but you'll need a Google Account to do this.
>>> Note that this does not necessarily mean you need a GMail account.
>>> This would work even if the calendar feed was not hosted by Google, as
>>> Google Calendar can import iCal.
>>> --
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>>> linux at lists.samba.org
>>> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux
>>
>>
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