[python-events] Regarding the current add method

Filipe Cifali cifali.filipe at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 14:31:50 EDT 2016


Hi Marc,

it was regarding accessing, reading and making a json out of it for our
Pelican engine, but I get the idea, thanks for your time anyway :-)

We'll read the ical files for this to get the infos already online.

Have a good day [ ]'s

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:15 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 04.11.2016 18:51, Filipe Cifali wrote:
> > Hello, my name is Filipe and I'm the a board member of APyB(brazilian
> > python user association).
> >
> > Can you share with me the workflow you guys use to add events to the
> Python
> > Event Calendar?
> >
> > Seems very much like a manual job based on e-mails and relying on much
> work
> > (https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#Submitting_an_Event)
> >
> > We currently maintain this website: http://python.org.br/eventos (it's
> > pt-br only but you can get the idea) and the way we "accept" new entries
> is
> > via Pull Request on the website repository:
> > https://github.com/pythonbrasil/wiki/
> >
> > Our idea would be to scrap the pycon.org list to update our website
> easier,
> > but seems like this work for you guys is very manual where it may or may
> > not be (e-mails seems heavily reliant on user input and manual work).
>
> Yes, it works based on emails, since that's easiest way to get
> people to submit entries.
>
> PR, issue trackers, etc. would introduce an extra level of
> indirection which would result in fewer events being submitted.
>
> The entries also need to be screened for validity, a choice of
> calendar has to be made and a check for duplicates/completeness
> of the information is necessary. It's easier to do this manually
> than trying to come up with a foolproof automated AI system :-)
>
> BTW: I'm not sure what you mean with "scrape the pycon.org list".
> You can access the event listings using iCal as described on the
> wiki page.
>
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