Where to post stuff?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 01.10.2013 01:00, Richard Jones wrote:
> Just quickly, regarding the PyTennessee CFP I wasn't going to add that to
> the calendar since if we add a bunch of conference CFPs I think the
> calendar will get too cluttered.

The Google calendars should only list the events themselves,
not any extras like CFPs.

I've added a note to the calendar wiki page:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar#General_Requirements

For the news list on python.org, I think adding CFPs for larger events
is fine, but I can see that this can easily move more important news such
as new Python releases out of visibility - esp. since the new site
will only list a limited number of entries.

> Hm, I just noticed the Melbourne user group comes up as 10AM. It's 6PM with
> the correct timezone in the calendar, but obviously the website display
> fixes the timezone to something else and translates the time. Ho hum.

Both calendars are set to use GMT as their native timezone.
When adding an event, you can set the timezone to a specific
location and Google will then store the corresponding GMT
time in the calendar. That may be more confusing than useful.

Perhaps there's something we could tweak to have it use
the browser timezone. The iframes explicitly list:

ctz=Europe%2FLondon

which according to https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v2/reference
results in all events being listed in London time (not even
GMT, but also London summer time).

We might want to drop using timezones for such events
and only list the local times in the description.

What do you think ?

>      Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On 1 October 2013 02:11, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 30.09.2013 17:58, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>> We now have three scrolls on the python.org front page, three Google
>>> Calendar-related ones in the sidebar, and the newsindex.yml one in the
>>> main section. This seems a little bit much to me. Shouldn't we cull
>>> some of these? For example, I just added the PyTN CFP item to the
>>> events calendar. Jason, the guy who requested it, said he didn't see
>>> the update. Then I realized he was looking in the middle of the page,
>>> not in the left-hand sidebar.
>>>
>>> What's the current policy about these various announcement options?
>>
>> Our team only manages the user group and conference events
>> calendars (the two calendar widgets in the python.org sidebar
>> and the calendar on pycon.org).
>>
>> We don't manage the newsindex.yml list which is show in the middle
>> of python.org.
>>
>> The new site also separates the news from the calendars:
>>
>> http://preview.python.org/
>>
>> I think all these tools each reach a different audience, e.g.
>> I use the Google calendars as external calendars in my own calendar,
>> which is handy. The announcements on python.org is for people
>> visiting the site and ones subscribing to the RSS feed. Then
>> you have c.l.p.a which goes into the mail reader, etc.
>>
>> These are all different channels to market news. A bit of replication
>> between these doesn't hurt, IMO. PR and marketing is generally a
>> lossy business ;-)
>>
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