[python-events] Regarding the current add method

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Nov 7 06:20:54 EST 2016


Hi Filipe,

we're using Google calendars for the events, so you should be able
to access the entries via the Google Calendar API:

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/python

PS: The calendars are public, but Google still requires a login
for accessing the API.

Cheers,
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On 04.11.2016 19:31, Filipe Cifali wrote:
> 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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