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Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community?

Posted by timothy on from the suggestions-welcome dept.

First time accepted submitter hughbar writes "I live in a London suburb that has many activities and classes, yoga, IT [of course], running, art, assorted volunteering and many others. With the help of the local council, we'd now like to make a centralised, searchable database of these, with a number of helpful features: Easy to make submissions, otherwise the whole thing will always be out of date; Web accessible [obviously] but mobile phone friendly as well; Maybe, publish and subscribe, so people can 'subscribe' to yoga listings for example; Handles repeating events, like a classical web calendar; Maybe, can be consolidated with nearby events calendars. I'm aware of MRBS and WebCalendar, but I'm wondering whether there are other suggestions, especially as this is a useful social application. And, yes, I'd like it done with open source, then we can tailor it."

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  1. Re:Google by FuzzNugget · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pick two

  2. it's been twenty years, or forty by holophrastic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Explain to me how it's 2014, and this is the same question that I've been asked since I started my web business in 1992? I'm just plain bored with it. We've had twenty years of web calendars, and forty years of software calendars. I've had enough of the question. What a waste of an entire industry. What good is an industry that can't solve a single basic problem in two decades? I'll be 60 in 25 years. I'll have retired twice, and I'll be consulting for random other companies. I swear my very last project, on my death-bed, will be the very same "we need an event calendar, what should we do?".

    Show of hands. How many readers here have built, installed, chosen, spec'd, designed, setup, trained, populated, migrated, or exported an event calendar more than six times? I'm approaching about 150 at this point.

    1. Re:it's been twenty years, or forty by icebike · · Score: 4, Insightful

      So you are 35, and you have already done this 150 times and you haven't got ONE suggested solution for a community calendar?

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    2. Re:it's been twenty years, or forty by DerekLyons · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I sound like a cook in a restaurant who, among many other things, has been making peanut butter and jam sandwiches for twenty years, and someone starting a new restaurant is asking for a recipe for peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

      Your self delusion and arrogance runs even deeper than you made it sound at first, not a trivial accomplishment.