challenge

In a previous thread, I mentioned my challenge to the Los Angeles Drupal community about ways for all of us to help both presenters & organizers alike avoid the dreaded 'B' word- burnout. I detail ways that we all, as a community, can step it up- which we need to do since word has come down from the LA Drupal Managers that only the Westside meetup is the "official/main" meetup & that they won't be providing official, logistical/managerial support for all of the other local groups that have sprung up in the last year (& are thriving!).
http://groups.drupal.org/node/129924#comment-430889

The yearly organized Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge awards prizes to the most promising triplifications of existing Web applications, Websites and data sets.

I saw an old post by Eric where he was suggesting that we post about projects we're working on in order to try to get the community rolling. Here goes...

I'm working on a site that correlates space_event data with observation data. Is there an easier, more Drupal, way to accomplish my mission than this?

Say there's a big astronomy event -- a solar eclipse, a nova, a comet fly-by. I have a CCK content type that describes that event (space_event):
-date/time
-description
-event-type (solar, planetary, etc)
-collection of observation_ref (node references to the observations)