[python-events] Added lots of missing conferences to the calendars
Marc-Andre Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Mon Jun 12 10:41:36 EDT 2023
Hi Jesper,
thank you for reaching out.
We have been working with Google calendars as data source for quite a
while. They are easy to use as maintainers, since you can basically add
them to your usual daily scheduling workflow.
The technology isn't really the problem here. It's finding enough
volunteers to help with sourcing the data and ideally have the community
submit events for inclusion. Looking at your website and Github, I see
that you have been doing most of this work for your database.
I know how much effort this takes, so thank you for providing this
service to the community!
Thinking out loud a bit...
The calendars we are using are limited in the number of fields they can
hold and so we're not able to maintain things like CFP dates or
additional URLs easily (we could put this data into the description
field, but that would make life harder for the team).
In an ideal world, we'd have a web form where people fill in the data,
which then gets stored in e.g. a Google sheet, which can be used as main
database and from which we could extract data in other formats (such as
the YAML format you use).
Since the world is not ideal, such data entries will have to be reviewed
by volunteers before they can go into a main database. We could use
Google sheets for this as well, with a staging sheet fed by the form and
a second sheet hooked up to the staging sheet via an approval column
(this could be done by a cronjob or via Google Script).
The data could then flow from that main sheet into the calendars which
python.org parses and you could use it for your website as well.
Wouldn't that make your life easier as well ? Perhaps we can join forces.
Of course, we'd need try to redirect the community to that web form for
submissions, but I suppose we could get the various projects to align on
such a central point of entry provided they can use the main database
exports.
Cheers,
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On 12.06.2023 15:48, Jesper Sören Dramsch wrote:
> Hey hey,
>
> I'm the maintainer of pythondeadlin.es <http://pythondeadlin.es>.
>
> I have recently built a connector to the python-organizers repo.
>
> Since this one doesn't have a public data base it's difficult to know
> which one I should submit and which one I shouldn't. Google calendar
> is nowadays unfortunately just a data end point and not a source.
>
> I'd be happy to generate a file for you in your preferred format with
> my YAML as a background file. Alternatively every conference has an
> ICS file you can import directly.
>
> So far I have YAML, RSS, CSV, a calendar file, the main page, etc
> I just focus on conferences with CfPs.
>
> Let me know what you think, if you want a file that you can check for
> new additions. Happy to have a conversation.
>
> All the best
> Jesper
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 14:47 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> there are two other websites, which are collecting conference
> dates and
> I checked them today, only to find that we have several conferences
> missing in the calendars:
>
> https://pythondeadlin.es/?sub=PY,SCIPY,PYDATA,WEB
> https://github.com/python-organizers/conferences
>
> It's really a pity that we don't seem to get folks aligned on a
> single
> source for such listings.
>
> I went through those listings and added most missing entries to
> the main
> calendars. There are likely more, so help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
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