[yapc] yapc.org out of date

Ann Barcomb ann at domaintje.com
Mon Jul 7 08:08:47 PDT 2008


> That's correct, the list of events is driven by The Perl Review events 
> calendar. Those events don't have a way to include an event link, so the only 
> way to get the event link is include it in the event description.
>
> We could try to parse the event description to get the link, or suggest some 
> standards for the description text to make it easier, but I think this would 
> be error prone. My main goal was to make this as automatic as possible (I 
> know, I'm lazy).
>
> As far as how it should work, I'm all ears if someone wants to suggest 
> something (and offer the time to implement the suggestion).

Out of curiosity, how are things getting on the Google calendar in the
first place?

Have you considered using BooK's YAML export of Perl events which are
using their instance of Act (http://www.yapceurope.org/conferences.yml)
as another data source?

- Ann


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