[LUAU] Google calendar?

[J. David Beutel]

R. Scott Belford wrote:
> Julian Yap wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:45 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
>>> Next question - why aren't the Saturday McKinley events or computer 
>>> guts
>>> etc. on this calendar? Board meetings? 
>>
>> Because HOSEF is currently a small volunteer organization.  The number
>> of people actively involved with organizing events can be counted on one
>> hand.  Everyone works full time and everyone contributes to HOSEF as
>> much as they can.
>>
>> But in the end, things don't happen without human intervention.
>
> Thanks David and J. David, for asking about events.  I used to be 
> profoundly diligent about updating members and our calendar on our 
> activities.  Ironically, we have more going on now than we used to. 
> HOSEF really needs a bard and a scribe to take care of documenting and 
> announcing our activities.  In the mean time I'll work on getting more 
> information online.

Julian's webcal URL looks good.  It's by Drupal and I just noticed some 
nice calendar pages on www.hosef.org (also by Drupal, I assume).  On the 
web site's calendar, there are some events in the coming months, but the 
webcal seems to be limited to 1 month from today (despite the all/all in 
its URL).  Is this intentional (e.g., because later events are still 
tentative or something)?

Please don't take this as a criticism or task.  It's not a problem for 
me, even if it's unintentional.  The calendar integration looks pretty 
young.  E.g., http://drupal.org/node/97294  But good enough to use already.

If anyone is looking for ways to encourage attendance at HOSEF events, I 
suggest putting the webcal URL on the calendar page, in the email 
announcements, etc.  If people subscribe to it, so they see it on their 
regular calendar (e.g., Google calendar), then it becomes another 
ongoing, effective channel for promoting the events.

Cheers,
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