[python-events] Added lots of missing conferences to the calendars

Jesper Sören Dramsch jesper at dramsch.net
Mon Jun 12 18:43:17 EDT 2023


Hey again,

I just created an RSS Feed that contains your preferred subscription as the
description.

https://pythondeadlin.es/python-events-export.xml

I currently can't get the XSL to parse the linebreaks, but you should be
able to subscribe to new events I add.

The only thing I can't provide is the size of events, I'm afraid.

All the best
Jesper


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Am Mo., 12. Juni 2023 um 23:45 Uhr schrieb Jesper Sören Dramsch <
jesper at dramsch.net>:

> Hey Marc-Andre,
>
> I mean that would be lovely, but I can't even get my PyCon organiser
> friends to tell me about updates to their CfPs ;)
>
> So usually, I will find the updates to conferences way before anyone has
> entered anything anywhere. But if we could get a central truth for data
> entry, of course, I'd love the easier access to this information and
> updates!
>
> All the best
> Jesper
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> Am Mo., 12. Juni 2023 um 16:41 Uhr schrieb Marc-Andre Lemburg <
> mal at egenix.com>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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,
>>> --
>>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
>>> eGenix.com
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