Export the conference dates to google calendar / some static website

[Mariatta]

While chatting with the @davidfischer and Anthony at PyCascades sprint, it was brought up that it will be real nice if the conference dates are all exported to google calendar periodically for easy viewing. Or if there is a nice website with all the events.
Better than reading a csv.
I think this is relatively simple to do.
Just needing someone who has time to work on it :)

[pradyunsg]

I can take this up. Do we have any design in mind in terms of what the page should look like?

[pradyunsg]

Do we want to use Jekyll with GitHub Pages to do this?

Or do we use some CI service / Netlify with a different static site generator?

[Mariatta]

Thank you! I don't personally have preference in terms of technology stack or even how it looks like (I'm not a designer or anything)
I just want a list of events, date (and day), and also to find out when there's conflict of conferences. 🙂
If you're able to come up with a design first that would be great!

[pradyunsg]

Cool. I have exams next week so I'll probably get to this now or in 2 weeks time, based on how my workload looks.

[webknjaz]

@pradyunsg you could try also generating some static json file so that it would be possible to autoreply to questions "when is...?" on github 😂

[webknjaz]

Oh, and here's prior art if you want to reuse it/merge: https://www.cfptime.org/

[Mariatta]

Ooh... What about something like gannt chart? Conferences usually span multiple days. With gannt chart visually we can see overlaps. That's the most important thing to me personally.

[davidfischer]

Not to scope creep this ticket like crazy but I actually think the calendar aspect of this (generating an .ical/.ics file) would be amazing. Generally you can just subscribe to the URL of a generated calendar as long as the URL doesn't change. When that file gets updated, your calendar gets updated.

[webknjaz]

The ideal global solution I'd like to see is some standardized file/endpoint in conference website serving structured data about typical milestones + maybe smth extra...

[Mariatta]

Now that we have travis CI in place, I think we can have this as a cronjob that publish the exported ical?

[webknjaz]

Yeah, you can do this with the provider I contributed to Travis CI a while back: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/pages/. But it requires someone's personal token for pushing things to gh-pages.

[pradyunsg]

I definitely dropped the ball on this. There's prior art at https://devswag.io who had a similar transition at some point in the past.

I'd planned to tackle this in multiple stages - first getting a barebones website up and then slowly adding functionality like a calendar view or iCal support etc.

If someone else wants to do this, please feel free to.

[jonafato]

It seems like there's possibly an effort to use this list to populate pycon.org. There are also other efforts that might be worth integrating with, e.g. https://cfpcalendar.com/.