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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 07.02.2013 08:29, Mike Müller wrote:
> 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. :)

Indeed. I've also added a small link make people aware of the
fact that adding events is easy.

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

Looks like David hasn't had time yet. I'll give it a try later today,
David doesn't beat me to it :-)

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