[sldev] In-world group to announce meetings/etc

[SignpostMarv Martin]

For recurring events, Zai and I figured the best solution was to have 
the template prepend the "next " string to the {{#time}} function- so a 
meeting occuring at 2pm every Monday would literally just be entered as 
"Monday, 2pm". From the example on 
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Template:HCalendar_event/Office_Hours

{{hCalendar event/Office Hours
|mode={{{mode|}}}
|Resident=Magellan Linden
|weekday=Tuesday
|start=10:30am PST
|end=11:30am PST
|description=Storytelling. How I found Nautilus City and what I'm up to with this Mole Tank.
|location=[http://slurl.com/secondlife/Omidyar/128/128/10 Omidyar]
}}


The auto-update method relies on the wiki cache expiring on a weekly 
basis, though if this fails to occur (for whatever reason), minor 
updates to the article can easily force a cache-refresh.

The entire article effectively becomes a noticeboard for tacking memos 
about events (individual hCalendar event blocks) onto, with services 
such as Technorati's automatically detecting these then transforming the 
document into one suitable for subscribing in iCalendar, Google 
Calendar, Lightning etc.


Zai and I also figured out a solution to apply the template to 
non-persons (e.g. articles representing groups, not individuals) by 
passing a blank namespace parameter, which defaults to User, e.g. 
|namespace={{{namespace|User}}}

This means the existing Office Hours templates could be used for the 
Open Source meeting templates.

If the template isn't sufficient, then new wrappers to 
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Template:hCalendar_event could be put 
together, or as with the table-row mode template for the Office Hours 
system, entirely new templates could be put together, so long as the 
output followed the hCalendar spec: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar


And yes, it is a great achievement, considering it has been languishing 
in development for over a year :-P


~ Marv.


Gordon Wendt wrote:
> Marv, does this auto update and take care of the issues with the 
> manually updated calendar that couldn't be group changed and ended up 
> falling behind on changes? If so then that's a great achievement
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:29 AM, SignpostMarv Martin 
> <me at signpostmarv.name <mailto:me at signpostmarv.name>> wrote:
>
>     btw, with the embedded calendar tech, its as simple as adding the
>     following URL to your  Google Calendar, iCal, or other
>      webcal-supporting software:
>     http://feeds.technorati.com/event/http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting
>
>     ~ Marv.
>
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