[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
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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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>> 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,
>>> --
>>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
>>> eGenix.com
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