I recently posted this on LibrePlanet and in response people shared various resources[10] tracking events. Are there any more examples people could share?
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Daniel
10. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2017-06/msg00051.html
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [libreplanet-discuss] cataloguing free software events globally and locally Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:19:50 +0200 From: Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro To: LibrePlanet Discuss libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
One of the biggest concerns people have about leaving platforms like Facebook and Meetup is that they fear they will miss out on events. I just put up another blog[1] about this topic in fact.
What tools do we have for sharing data about events in other ways?
For example, are there any free software tools that make it easy to send birthday invitations using iCalendar (.ics) email attachments and is this an option for mainstream use?
For larger or more public events, what could be done to gather and distribute data effectively in iCalendar HTTP feeds, similar to the way that Planet software aggregates and distributes RSS? If we could use such techniques effectively for events in the free software world (and the IT industry in general), it would provide a useful model for other communities.
I recently used search engines to try and find out about events and dragged up a bunch of sites, some local, some international:
http://freie-termine.ch/ https://www.ch-open.ch/events/aktuelle-events/ http://www.ossroadmap.ch/ https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.html https://opensource.com/resources/conferences-and-events-monthly?month=2017-0... https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na https://lists.debian.org/debian-events-apac https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events?rd=FedoraEvents
but clearly there are far more events out there, just in the free software world, that don't appear in any of these sites.
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://danielpocock.com/how-did-the-world-ever-work-without-facebook
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* Daniel Pocock [2017-06-28 09:19 +0200]:
I recently posted this on LibrePlanet and in response people shared various resources[10] tracking events. Are there any more examples people could share?
I assume you mean mainly Free Software events, right? (Because meanwhile the FSFE is also present at non-software events with booths.)
I would add https://lwn.net/Calendar/ and for speakers (or those who want to become speakers) https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/
What's also missing in German, but not limited to German events http://www.pro-linux.de/kalender/index1.html
I just remembered http://grical.org/ but I don't know how active it is anymore.
(I heard from an organisation that they are currently planing to create a new aggregator for events about surveillance, privacy, Free Software, Open Hardware, etc. in Germany.)
Regards, Matthias
On 28/06/17 09:45, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
- Daniel Pocock [2017-06-28 09:19 +0200]:
I recently posted this on LibrePlanet and in response people shared various resources[10] tracking events. Are there any more examples people could share?
I assume you mean mainly Free Software events, right? (Because meanwhile the FSFE is also present at non-software events with booths.)
That is an interesting point. There is no reason not to use the same technology and databases to catalogue non-IT related events where free software communities have a presence. Whatever technical solutions we develop and use for this would ideally work for any type of event.
I would add https://lwn.net/Calendar/ and for speakers (or those who want to become speakers) https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/
CFP is a very good point to. It would actually be really interesting to try and build a system that presents registration deadlines and CFPs as tasks (VTODO objects with deadlines) in iCalendar feed so that if people see something they want to do, they can import it into their task list with a click.
What's also missing in German, but not limited to German events http://www.pro-linux.de/kalender/index1.html
I just remembered http://grical.org/ but I don't know how active it is anymore. (I heard from an organisation that they are currently planing to create a new aggregator for events about surveillance, privacy, Free Software, Open Hardware, etc. in Germany.)
Thanks for suggesting these too.
Regards,
Daniel