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RSS And Calendar Integration

Posted by Hemos on from the trying-to-make-it-work dept.

sytelus writes "Many has played with the idea of packaging calendar information in to the RSS feed. Almost every other website owned by some kind of group or organization has an event calendar so the thought of aggregating those events in to your calendar is pretty appealing. Even more appealing is the thought that people might start tagging their weekend plans and schedules in their RSS feeds. This essay , written after digging through dozens of W3C specs and half a dozen of implementations, reviews the current state of affair."

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  1. Uhh... by quinto2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what's wrong with iCal, aka vcal 2.0? There's even an XML version, and it can definitely be syndicated better than RSS.

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  2. RSS-this and RSS-that, all just a hype? by Oldest+European · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even more appealing is the thought that people might start tagging their weekend plans and schedules in their RSS feeds.

    And why would that be?

    What would that be good for?

    And besides that, even if most sites offer RSS feeds today, how many people are really reading them?

    Maybe it sounds stupid to mention that on slashdot, but I know a lot of people, who don't even have the slightest clue what RSS is in the first place.

  3. Distributed links and events by pfafrich · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Allow me to introduce a problem I'd like to solve. I'm part of a large international permaculture movement many of the the different groups have their own websites with space for events. However there is no communication between the website so the task of actually finding an event is rather tricky involving searching of numerous websites.

    What I'd like to do is introduce a distributed events system, so that information on an event could be submitted at one site and it could propagate around the network keeping all the listings up to date.

    Requirements for the system are simplicity. i.e. setting up a node should be very easy (most groups are not very computer literate) so recommendations for easy to install software would be good. The software would need to integrate easily with existing websites, so nice configurable php scripts would be good. Maybe a bit richer format than iCal so its easy to search for events in England or a particular county and also some tagging features to allow for certain types of events.

    I'd also like to do something similar for links to websites.

    Any suggestions?

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