Agile Events Calendar?

[Mark Levison-2]

As an organizer of a small Agile user
group<http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/>and potentially a small Agile
conference I’ve noticed that the Community
lacks one good central calendar with a list of events. If we created one –
would you find it useful?

I’ve suggested that InfoQ create one and need to determine what the minimum
feature set would be:

   - Events are tagged with their geographic location, time, date, cost –
   with everything else in free form text
   - Only not for profit events are allowed *I’m not quite sure what test to
   apply here I just know that we would drown in Scrum/Agile training
   announcements if they were permitted on the same calendar.*
   - Subscribe via RSS
   - Subscribe via monthly/bi-weekly email.
   - Moderated to prevent spam
   - Anyone can submit an event

In the wine world something like this already exists:
http://www.localwineevents.com/events/listing/all/76

My questions:

   - Would this be useful to you?
   - Would you subscribe?
   - What features am I missing from the minimum feature set?
   - Would you be willing to help moderate this?
   - Is there any existing open source/free software that can be used to
   this job?
   - Would you think to look on: http://planet.infoq.com/ to find the
   calendar?

BTW I've seen Deb's efforts at: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2228/  - but
it doesn't appear to have taken off.

Cheers
Mark Levison

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[dan.mezick]

try:

AgileANN in Yahoo

Give THANKS for Scrum ! Jeff, Ken, Sanjiv, Amr, Dan
http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/gtfs

> As an organizer of a small Agile user
> group<http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/>and potentially a small Agile
> conference I’ve noticed that the Community
> lacks one good central calendar with a list of events. If we created one –
> would you find it useful?
>
> I’ve suggested that InfoQ create one and need to determine what the
> minimum
> feature set would be:
>
>    - Events are tagged with their geographic location, time, date, cost –
>    with everything else in free form text
>    - Only not for profit events are allowed *I’m not quite sure what test
> to
>    apply here I just know that we would drown in Scrum/Agile training
>    announcements if they were permitted on the same calendar.*
>    - Subscribe via RSS
>    - Subscribe via monthly/bi-weekly email.
>    - Moderated to prevent spam
>    - Anyone can submit an event
>
> In the wine world something like this already exists:
> http://www.localwineevents.com/events/listing/all/76
>
> My questions:
>
>    - Would this be useful to you?
>    - Would you subscribe?
>    - What features am I missing from the minimum feature set?
>    - Would you be willing to help moderate this?
>    - Is there any existing open source/free software that can be used to
>    this job?
>    - Would you think to look on: http://planet.infoq.com/ to find the
>    calendar?
>
> BTW I've seen Deb's efforts at: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2228/  -
> but
> it doesn't appear to have taken off.
>
> Cheers
> Mark Levison
>
>    *Mark Levison* | Founder and Consultant -
> TheAgileConsortium<http://theagileconsortium.com/>| Agile
> Editor @ InfoQ <http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp>
> Blog <http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/> |
> Twitter<http://twitter.com/mlevison>| Office: [phone]
> Recent Entries: Agile Mailing Lists a
> Survey<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/06/agile-mailing-lists.html%20>,
> Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your
> Team?<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/01/do-you-suspect-you-have-a-less-than-productive-person-on-your-team.html>
>

[Kaleb Pederson-2]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 08:54:17 am Mark Levison wrote:
> My questions:
>
>    - Would this be useful to you?

Yes.

>    - Would you subscribe?

Yes if ... (see below)

>    - What features am I missing from the minimum feature set?

I would want to narrow down events to a specific geographical region.

>    - Would you be willing to help moderate this?

Yes.

>    - Is there any existing open source/free software that can be used to
>    this job?
>    - Would you think to look on: http://planet.infoq.com/ to find the
>    calendar?

No, but as long as my it showed up in my RSS reader I'd be able to get to it.

--
Kaleb Pederson

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