Community Calendar - options other than Google Cal?

Communities
#1

re: WNFS in Google Cal https://github.com/wnfs-wg/spec/discussions/22#discussioncomment-3362092

Which led me to https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-docs/issues/1237

I find the Google Calendar version of these things to be not very visible, discoverable, or linkable (look at that link!). Rather than sending them to Google Calendar, I’d pitch you on adding it all to either the IPFS Discourse calendar here OR create a Luma community for all of IPFS.

Here’s some background on the Discourse Calendar/Event plugin (which is installed) 🗓 Discourse Event - plugin - Discourse Meta

I definitely am going to be feeling the pain of running 4-5 working groups with a monthly cadence – never mind ones that I attend or special events. For some of them, this IPFS forum is a pretty good fit. Any other thoughts on cross organizational events? Would it be useful to have a live call around this to kick ideas around?

cc @BigLep

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IPFS stewards <> advocates sync
#2

@boris: thanks for posting. I haven’t had bandwidth to look into this. Getting the IPFS Community Google Calendar was already a stretch for the week.

@danieln: I wanted to make sure you saw this given you picked up Add a link to the IPFS community calendar · Issue #1237 · ipfs/ipfs-docs · GitHub . Thought, input, action on proceeding is welcome.

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IPFS stewards <> advocates sync
#3

TBC — you should go ahead and get that into the docs.

But if we’re going to be running global community events and working groups it will be helpful to have something more discoverable. And probably some other attributes we’ll want to compare / contrast.

@danieln have a call next week and we can brainstorm more. So @BigLep call this an FYI, we’ll ask you for input, but this shouldn’t be “on your plate” I don’t think :wink:

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#4

@boris and @danieln : I’m curious where you ended up on this.

One issue I see with the Discourse calendar plugin (like we used in IPFS Thing 2022 - sample event) is that it doesn’t appear to have an easy way to get a .ics out and that stays updated as times change/move. (I see in 🗓 Discourse Event - plugin - Discourse Meta that .ics export is supported but I couldn’t find it.)

Again, I’m not wedded to Google Calendar but at least for me it will be a challenge if I can’t see events inline with the other things I have on my calendar.

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#5

We ended up as no one taking this on :wink:

We discussed this today with the #pln Spaceport team — and flagged the same issue. No discovery, no linking to be able to share.

That is — a GCal solves certain things but for me (and others I’ve interviewed) just having 100s of events “in” a calendar doesn’t help me plan out eg a quarter at a time in a more agenda style.

There is ics support in Discourse. It’s either in the header or there might be an option / theme to display a link. We pretty much turned on events without doing much else here :wink:

I’ll be doing more around this as we do some customization with our Fission Discourse — I’ll report back.

I’m also looking ahead to LabWeek and thinking about Sched https://sched.com as a tool for people being able to build their own calendars for those busy multi track multi event multi org spaces.

Let’s keep this thread alive if others also have calendar ideas to drop in!

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