[svlug] Google Calendar of bay area Linux events

[Sameer Verma]

Bill Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Thank you. Rick Moen has a Bay Area Linux Events calendar,
>>  http://linuxmafia.com/bale/, but does not use Google apps. I wonder
>>  whether there is a way to transfer data between these two sites that
>>  is mutually agreeable. Rick?
>>     
>
> I started my Google calendar because the BALE calendar was buggy and
> out of date and didn't seem to be actively maintained, and I felt
> Google's toolset met the needs better.  I've not been monitoring
> recent events with BALE, has it been fixed?
>
>   
>>  >  I'm also open to granting permission to make changes to the calendar.
>>  >  Currently Sameer Verma, Andrew Fife, and Bruce Perens have such
>>  >  access.  Let me know if you'd be interested and what your reasons for
>>  >  doing so would be.
>>
>>  That's OLPC in San Francisco, Silicon Valley LUG and major
>>  installfests, and a large section of the Open Source community
>>  covered. What else do we need?
>>
>>  I nominate Heather Stern. Heather?
>>
>>  I'm the bid chair for PyCon 2010 and 2011 in the Bay Area. We'll let
>>  you know if we win. Right now we have the only complete bid. We are
>>  not exclusively Linux, but we are just as Free/Open Source as any
>>  Linux event.
>>     
>
> I think major events in the OS world like that are suitable for the
> calendar, but for regular monthly things I would prefer to keep it
> Linux-specific.
>
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I am very much for the idea of a common calendar for LUG and LUG-related
activities around the Bay Area. If different LUGs agree, then we can
have one place to add events (multiple incoming) and syndicate it out
(multiple outgoing) to different LUG sites (and anyone else interested
in aggregating the syndicated calendar feed) by embedding it on their
page or apps.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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