[kwlug-disc] Watcamp newsletter

Sat Jun 10 21:33:43 EDT 2017

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My thoughts on a calendar were strictly to publish KWLUG meetings and
events in a proper .ics or iCal format, which Drupal can do, but isn't
easy. Nothing to do with WatCamp.

Although, if WatCamp ever gets off Google Calendars, it could begin to
consume .ics/iCal feeds, including one for KWLUG if we can make it exist.

I think the WatCamp thing Paul is working on will convert upcoming
WatCamp items to a mailing list. Nothing to do with KWLUG.

- --Bob.

On 2017-06-09 08:30 AM, B. S. wrote:
> You may not want to get too ambitious inventing technology on this
> just yet.
> 
> Calendars was one aspect of Bob's initial request of Mark for a
> VPS, so expect something to happen on that this year.
> 
> This was expected to be within the context of Nextcloud, so I don't
> know that it was specific to Watcamp. I will let Bob make any
> further comment wrt his intent, and so on.
> 
> Not meaning to put any form of damper on anything here, merely to
> say that the VPS and facilities of Nextcloud will be available as a
> resource if useful. e.g. I'm guessing you could make a public
> RSS'able calendar there. There must be a line between K-W Lug
> purposes / resources and a much larger community, but just where
> that line is isn't clear. Certainly only a calendar isn't too much,
> and I've long claimed K-W Lug is more about technology in/and K-W,
> and more U than L in Lug.
> 
> GNU Social and Nextcloud are up, now, but in no way ready for 
> production. Nextcloud, in particular, I need to completely re-do, 
> particularly with accompanying services like XMPP for it to sit
> with / leverage. [But perhaps URLs won't change?]
> 
> My vision of the VPS is as a K-W Lug collaborative seed pot. Just 
> exactly what that means isn't entirely apparent to me just yet,
> but everywhere you look in Nextcloud its collaborative boundaries
> seem pretty far out there. A resource, just like www.kwlug.org and
> these mailing lists are resources, anything on
> https://kwlug.org/community, or even Andrew's
> https://gitlab.com/kwlug, for that matter. (wiki, anyone?)
> 
> Bob's initial request, which Mark delivered on: -------- Forwarded
> Message -------- Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] KWLUG VPS server Date:
> Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:50:08 -0400 From: Bob Jonkman
> <bjonkman at sobac.com> Reply-To: KWLUG discussion
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> Organisation: SOBAC Microcomputer Services 
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> 
> I've been wanting to set up a KWLUG GNUsocial instance. It would
> only be one Web-based app, so it wouldn't completely consume a VPS.
> If someone is willing to help with the VPS maintenance I'll gladly
> help set up a GS instance.
> 
> There's a @KWLUG GNUsocial account at http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug
> right now, but it would carry much more authority if it were
> actually hosted on a gs.kwlug.org domain. And while I'm happy to
> invite other KWLUGgers to my GS instance I doubt many people will
> want to be attached to a domain named "jonkman".
> 
> I wouldn't mind setting up a KWLUG Nextcloud instance too. That'll
> get us the calendaring service that Drupal is currently lacking.
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] KWLUG
> VPS server Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:50:08 -0400 From: Bob Jonkman
> <bjonkman at sobac.com> Reply-To: KWLUG discussion
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> Organisation: SOBAC Microcomputer Services 
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> 
> I've been wanting to set up a KWLUG GNUsocial instance. It would
> only be one Web-based app, so it wouldn't completely consume a VPS.
> If someone is willing to help with the VPS maintenance I'll gladly
> help set up a GS instance.
> 
> There's a @KWLUG GNUsocial account at http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug
> right now, but it would carry much more authority if it were
> actually hosted on a gs.kwlug.org domain. And while I'm happy to
> invite other KWLUGgers to my GS instance I doubt many people will
> want to be attached to a domain named "jonkman".
> 
> I wouldn't mind setting up a KWLUG Nextcloud instance too. That'll
> get us the calendaring service that Drupal is currently lacking.
> 
> 
> On 06/08/2017 07:45 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> At the meeting a number of you were polite enough to express
>> interest in a newsletter version of the Watcamp events calendar
>> (so you need not remember to visit the thing to learn about
>> events). I have set up the infrastructure as a new mailing list.
>> 
>> 
>> If you don't have enough newsletters in your life, you can
>> subscribe here:
>> 
>> https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/watcamp-newsletter_kwlug.org
>> 
>> If somebody would be willing to help moderate this mailing list
>> then I would be very grateful. The moderation should be trivial,
>> but I do not want to be the only one with access.
>> 
>> Eventually I hope this will get linked to the real Watcamp site,
>> but that isin progress. You can send feedback about the newletter
>> to me.
>> 
>> If you have Google Calendars that you would like to turn into 
>> newsletter or RSS form, then maybe the horrible Python scripts I
>> wrote will be useful:
>> https://github.com/pnijjar/google-calendar-helpers . i
>> 
>> I am also willing to help generate newsletters for your
>> community organization's Google calendars, thanks to the VPS
>> access Bill Switzer, Bob Jonkman and Mark Steffen provided.
> 
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