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

Marc-Andre Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Tue Jun 13 13:12:30 EDT 2023


Here's an initial version of such an event database:

Field 	Description 	Mandatory 	Format 	Notes

	
	
	
	
Event details: 	
	
	
	
Event Name 	Event name 	x 	Text 	
Event Type 	Type of event 	x 	Text 	
Possible values: conference, usergroup, workshop, competition, other
Event Focus 	Main focus of the event 	x 	Text 	Possible values: python, 
data, web, science, other
Start Date 	First day of event 	x 	YYYY-MM-DD 	given in local timezone
Start Time 	Start time of the event on Start Date 	
	HH:MM 	given in local timezone; not for full day events
End Date 	Last day of event 	x 	YYYY-MM-DD 	given in local timezone
End Time 	End time of the event on End Date 	
	HH:MM 	given in local timezone; not for full day events
Event Form 	In-person, online or hybrid event 	x 	Text 	Possible values: 
inperson, online, hybrid
Location 	Location of the event (city, country) or stream 	x 	Text 	
Venue 	Name of event venue 	
	Text 	e.g. "Convention Center"
Website URL 	Event website 	x 	URL 	
Sponsorship URL 	Sponsorship information 	
	URL 	
Number of Attendees 	Expected number of attendees 	
	Integer 	Used to select the calendar

	
	
	
	
CFP Details: 	
	
	
	
CFP Deadline 	Last day for proposal submissions 	
	YYYY-MM-DD 	given in local timezone
CFP Deadline Tutorials 	Same for tutorials, if different 	
	YYYY-MM-DD 	given in local timezone
CFP URL 	Proposal information 	
	URL 	

	
	
	
	
Submitter details: 	
	
	
	Used for contacting the submitter
Email 	Email address of the submitter 	x 	Email 	
Name 	Name of the submitter 	x 	Text 	
Role in the event team 	Role of the submitter in the team 	
	Text 	Adds some authority to the submission

	
	
	
	
Social media values: 	
	
	
	
Blog URL 	Event blog URL 	
	URL 	
Twitter Handle 	Event Twitter account handle 	
	Handle 	
Mastodon Handle 	Event Mastodon account handle 	
	Handle URL 	
LinkedIn URL 	Event LinkedIn page URL 	
	URL 	

	
	
	
	
Computed values: 	
	
	
	These are not entered by the submitter
Country 	Country code 	
	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 	Calculated from “Location“
Location Coordinates 	Location coordinates 	
	Lat, Long 	Calculated from “Location“
Year 	Year of the event 	
	YYYY 	Calculated from “Start Date“
Timezone 	
Timezone UTC offset used for date/time entries
	
	+/-HH:MM 	Calculated from “Location“

	
	
	
	
TODO: 	
	
	
	
- Recurring events 	
	
	
	


Is there anything important missing ?

I have not yet added /recurring events/, since recurrence rules are 
difficult and the python.org website doesn't support them either.

Thanks,

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On 13.06.2023 12:04, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
>
> Hi Jesper,
>
> this looks great. Thank you for creating the feed.
>
> I'll have a look at creating something along the lines of what I 
> outlined in the combing weeks and then let you know of the progress 
> I've made.
>
> I plan to create a spreadsheet and form with enough information to 
> also cover the details from the
> https://github.com/python-organizers/conferences CSV files and your 
> YAML files.
>
> I just have to figure out how we can manage changes and updates to 
> existing entries in an easy way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> eGenix.com
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>
> On 13.06.2023 00:43, Jesper Sören Dramsch wrote:
>> 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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>>
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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 <http://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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