Where to post stuff?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 01.10.2013 09:31, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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).

Also see this thread:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=msg/calendar/oM9HZJpwN7E/YAdncNTcZxYJ#!msg/calendar/oM9HZJpwN7E/YAdncNTcZxYJ

Looks like we'd have to add some JavaScript to make it happen,
perhaps based on this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clients-timezone-in-javascript

if the calendar query API supports using timezone strings that
are not locations.

> 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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