[pydotorg-www] Adding User Group Calendar to home page

[Mike Müller]

Am 05.02.13 16:57, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg:
> On 18.01.2013 10:41, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 18.01.2013 10:15, Mike Müller wrote:
>>> Am 16.01.13 16:37, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg:
>>>> On 16.01.2013 16:33, mmueller at python-academy.de wrote:
>>>>> Hi web team,
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the dates of Python events are split between the events calendar and the user group
>>>>> group calendar it makes sense to add both to the python.org home page.
>>>>> While the events calendar appears in left column, the user group calendar does not.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice to have the user group calendar there, just below and in the same style.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the link for the iframe
>>>>>
>>>>> "https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=3haig2m9msslkpf2tn1h56nn9g%40group.calendar.google.com"
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>
>>>> this was done on purpose, since we first wanted to see whether the
>>>> user events clutter up the calendar too much. That doesn't appear to be
>>>> the case, so it may be a good idea to add it as extra calendar box on the
>>>> sidebar.
>>>
>>> Good. I would like to add more user group events and invite others to
>>> submit theirs. Right now I cannot find a link from the python.org site
>>> anywhere. I think I need to supply such link to encourage people to add
>>> an event. Of course, the link was on the a wiki page. But having it from
>>> other places too might not be that bad an idea.
>>
>> Are you looking for this ?
>>
>> http://pycon.org/#calendar
>>
>>> Regarding clutter, one of the intentions of having two different calendars
>>> for conference-like events and user group meetings was to prevent clutter.
>>> The way the box is set up, it shows only the most recent events. Therefore,
>>> the worst that can happen that you see only events that are today because
>>> there are so many of them. You need to click on the box anyway to see more
>>> details.
>>
>> True. I can add the new box next week.
> 
> I've added the box now. The next site rebuild should make the
> change visible.

Great. Now we have a better case in asking user groups for their meeting dates.
python.org is easy enough to remember as the direct entry point for your search
for user group meeting dates. :)

Mike

> David, could you perhaps trigger a site rebuild ?
> 
> Thanks,
>