We need a volunteer (and new event categories)

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.
highermath's picture

I need a volunteer to take change of keeping and publishing a master calendar of Drupal Camps, Sprints and related meetings. If you have some spare time and are interested either respond here or contact me through g.d.o or a.d.o.

Thanks,

Cary Gordon
Drupal Association Events Manger

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How much spare time are we

kurkuma's picture

How much spare time are we talking about?
An estimation based in the actual estate of events would be ok.

Jorge

Not much

highermath's picture

This is more about reliability than time commitment. Whoever does this needs to go through g.d.o and d.o on a regular basis and find community events that are non-commercial and of interest to the larger community of Drupal users.

They will work with the g.d.o webmasters to come up with a calendar block that can be shown in appropriate locations. Ideally, there would be some taxonomy for region and, where appropriate, subject.

Once this is going, I would think that, for someone who already regularly visits g.d.o and d.o, it shouldn'g be more than an hour a week, and that is probably on the high side.

mmm

kurkuma's picture

I suppose that all the relevant posts must be from the type "event", so it should be possible to do it automatically. In fact there is a group page with a calendar view of the current month events (http://groups.drupal.org/events). Then I guess that there are events that are not created as such and we need to catch them and make them public. Please correct me if I am wrong, I am trying to understand the task before volunteering for anything too dangerous or insane ;-)

What about the frequency of updates? Once a week seems reasonable.

Jorge

This is on hold for a little bit

highermath's picture

I am working with the webmasters to make this something that can be delegated. They need to drate a role and give it the appropriate permission. Of course, if you are a g.d.o webmaster or site maintainer and want to take this on, that would work.

Thanks,

Cary

If this is a shared role

christefano's picture

If this is a shared role, I'm happy to be one of the people to tag events for the calendar. In any case, do you have a recommendation for what the category should be called? We currently have regional conference, user group meeting, Drupalcon, virtual meeting and training.

update: I see there's an issue filed for this in the webmaster queue: http://drupal.org/node/529076

This would be *so* perfect for kscheirer

Senpai's picture

I'm emailing Karl Scheirer the link to this node. He's been keeping a personal calendar of all drupal events for years. Woot!
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Filter by region

JasonSmith's picture

I'd really like to see them filterable by region. It's information overload.

First we need to redo the

highermath's picture

First we need to redo the taxonomy, then this should be a lot more doable. I have a ticket in.

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