Right now, Civic Tech Toronto keeps a community Google calendar. We have a bot that allows it to be crowd-maintained, though some people add more to it than others:
Our chatbot command where anyone can type roobot gcal add http://eventbrite.com/myevent, and the bot uses a little hosted service to get event metadata from the page, and create an event. I know that quite a few people subscribe to the gcal, but no exact analytics, unfortunately.
Anyhow, I see that Civic Hall is maintaining a calendar for the field guide. This is great, but I was wondering if anyone is interested in riffing on how this could be democratized a bit. Perhaps we could allow people to submit their community calendars (which they manage however they please), and we could host a service that can merge many ical feeds into one (perhaps even letting people choose which).
Related: https://github.com/jacobmischka/ics-merger
So why do this? For me, the end-goal would be to have a source from which to generate announcements i my home slack. I feel like working toward this -- a shared resource that we build together, and which meets us each where we already hang out -- would be beneficial. Eventually offering a little announcement chatbot service would be huge for keeping us all in sync -- after all, getting together in-person for events is where all the connection magic truly happens :)
Right now, Civic Tech Toronto keeps a community Google calendar. We have a bot that allows it to be crowd-maintained, though some people add more to it than others:
Our chatbot command where anyone can type
roobot gcal add http://eventbrite.com/myevent, and the bot uses a little hosted service to get event metadata from the page, and create an event. I know that quite a few people subscribe to the gcal, but no exact analytics, unfortunately.Anyhow, I see that Civic Hall is maintaining a calendar for the field guide. This is great, but I was wondering if anyone is interested in riffing on how this could be democratized a bit. Perhaps we could allow people to submit their community calendars (which they manage however they please), and we could host a service that can merge many ical feeds into one (perhaps even letting people choose which).
Related: https://github.com/jacobmischka/ics-merger
So why do this? For me, the end-goal would be to have a source from which to generate announcements i my home slack. I feel like working toward this -- a shared resource that we build together, and which meets us each where we already hang out -- would be beneficial. Eventually offering a little announcement chatbot service would be huge for keeping us all in sync -- after all, getting together in-person for events is where all the connection magic truly happens :)