[Montreal-pm] starting a project...

Olivier VALUET oliviertp at valuet.net
Mer 21 Juil 04:08:28 PDT 2010


hi mongers,

we could maybe create a user montreal.pm in github and then create a new
repo about a project ... to define.
hence, people interested could start to fork from their own github user and
contribute for montreal.pm, with links to ohloh.

what project? something about montreal or perl , right?
here is one about montreal: record the events of montreal from calendars of
different official websites (api or rss is preferred, but i saw more page
results from a form search) into a personal calendar hosted in an online
tool (google calendar, yahoo! calendar, and/or any in
http://mashable.com/2007/10/08/online-calendar-toolbox)

the user should be able to:
* manage a list of in-calendars, i.e. the calendars provided by the websites
( (like http://eventful.com which offers a iCal link). needed for each
calendar:
       * a calendar name
       * a url that provides the calendar
       * a login/password if required by the website
       * the calendar format, used to encapsulate the events
       * the tags or the categories to get only what is needed
       * slurping the calendars from websites
* manage a list of out-calendars, i.e. the calendars hosted by the
online-calendar tool(s) in which you have an account. needed for each
calendar:
       * a calendar name
       * a calendar color (when calendar is created)
       * a url of the online-calendar tool
       * a login/password to log in into the online-calendar tool
       * the filters to ... filter the non-desired events
       * the calendar format, used to encapsulate the events
       * slurping existing calendars from online calendar tool(s)
* request a merge of different in-calendars to be pushed into at least one
out-calendar. needed:
      * automatic removal of duplicated events before insertion into new
merged calendar
      * automatic feedback on conflicts with events of other existing
in-or-out calendars (use of a vcs to check the diff?)

the internal format of the calendars could be as indicated in this module:
http://search.cpan.org/~rfrankel/iCal-Parser-1.16/lib/iCal/Parser.pm

if that tool already exists, please, let us know and send a proposal for a
nice project, but not too big for montreal.pm! thx.
if not, pls, add ideas in the thin design above! or suggest another sexier
and more motivating project! thx.
hence, we could have a good reason to take a community beer! :)

regards,
olivier

some websites providing calendars:
http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/Travel-Trade/What-To-Do/Events
http://events.montreal.com
http://www.montreal.com , like: http://www.montreal.com/tourism/festivals
http://eventful.com : offers a iCal link

a list of online calendars:
http://mashable.com/2007/10/08/online-calendar-toolbox (maybe outdated, but
looked good anyway)
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