Website Renewal

[Joel Addison]

On 17/03/2011 7:56 PM, Jared Norris wrote:
>>> The current calendar on the site looks to be using the Event module, which
>>> has not had a new release since 2007. The module used by most people now for
>>> calendars is a combination of the Date + Calendar modules. This setup is
>>> quite different to Event from what I can tell (I haven't used Event module
>>> at all), so it might take a bit more configuration to change to. However it
>>> is worth changing to the Date + Calendar modules, as it give a full upgrade
>>> path in the future. Another positive is that the Calendar module support
>>> subscribing to ical format calendars, so the loco.u.com calendar should be
>>> able to be used on the u.org.au website (no doubling up on adding entries).
>>>
> Good evening Ubuntu-AU'ers,
>
> I have a thought on the duplication of work across the different
> communication methods we have for our team. Would anyone object to not
> even running an events module on the main website (www.ubuntu.org.au)
> and just providing an "events" button that is a direct link to the
> loco.u.c site (http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-au) where it lists
> all upcoming events and meetings anyway? We could add the RSS feed
> from the loco.u.c site to the page as well so it will grab the details
> of events as they're added and publish it to the website so that it
> still acts as a sounding board for that aspect of the team.
>
> This would be the simplest solution which in my experience is often
> the best but I wanted to make sure this is an acceptable solution to
> the team.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris

Hi Jared,

I think that solution to getting events on the website would work fine. 
The issue of Thunderbird/Lightning showing events from the loco.u.c site 
at the wrong time (using UTC instead of converting to local timezones) 
would still exist with this method. However, I haven't yet had time to 
test if using an events module on the u.org.au site that imports from 
loco.u.c and then subscribing to that calendar in Lightning would fix 
the problem, so at this stage I think your solution would be the easiest 
to implement and use.

Regards,
Joel